Psychological Reactions in the Wounded

Psychological reactions in the (I.C.U.) Department of Animation

The Psycho-reactive problems affecting patients, relatives and staff in the intensive care unit are discussed in this article. These problems are usually due to the ad­mitting disease itself, ( obvious anxiety of the patient who has just had a coronary infarc­tion agitation of the patient with incipient respiratory failure) or psycho-reactive problems arising directly from the I.C.U. environ­me...

The psychological aspect of allergic skin reactions in childhood.

The wounded worm

The ability to heal wounds is an ancient and conserved function of epidermal epithelial layers. The importance of skin wound healing to human life and biology has long been evident, however many of the molecular mechanisms underlying wound repair remain little understood. In the past several years, analysis of the C. elegans innate immune response to fungal infection of the epidermis has led to...

Infection in conflict wounded.

Although mechanisms of modern military wounding may be distinct from those of ancient conflicts, the infectious sequelae of ballistic trauma and the evolving microbial flora of war wounds remain a considerable burden on both the injured combatant and their deployed medical systems. Battlefield surgeons of ancient times favoured suppuration in war wounding and as such Galenic encouragement of pu...

Acute versus chronic psychological reactions to combat.