A brief history of wound care.

A Brief History of Wound Care

A Brief History of the Treatment of Burns.

Advances in burn care have a long history with accelerated development within the last 50 years. The principal areas of burn treatment include dressings, antimicrobials, fluid resuscitation, burn wound excision, grafting of skin, and skin substitution. This review presents a historical outline of these areas, their current status, and prospects for the future of burn care.

The Kent hospital Wound Recovery and Hyperbaric Medicine Center: a brief overview, 1998-2013.

A brief description of the Wound Recovery and Hyperbaric Medicine Center, now in its second decade of service, will inform the general medical community of this valuable asset. Demand for wound care services is predicted to grow steadily over the next several decades. Kent Hospital's vision for wound care is embodied in its thriving Wound Recovery and Hyperbaric Medicine Center. New cost- effec...

A Brief Review about the Effect of Honey on Diabetic Foot Ulcer; from In Vitro Studies to Clinical Trials

Diabetes mellitus has many complications; one of the most important ones is diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). Due to the increasing prevalence of diabetes in the world and evidences of the role of honey in treatment of DFU, we decided to review the effect of honey on DFU. We searched the keywords of “honey”, “diabetic foot ulcer”, “treatment”, “diabetes mellitus”, “wound dressing” and “wound healing” ...

The Continued Utility and Viability of Dakin’s Solution in Both High- and Low-resource Settings

Healthcare is expensive and often inaccessible to many. As a result, surgeons must consider simple, less expensiveinterventions when possible. For wound care, an older but quite effective cleaning agent is Dakin’s solution (0.5%sodium hypochlorite), an easily made mixture of 100 milliliters (ml) bleach with 8 teaspoons (tsp) baking soda into agallon of clean water or 25 ml ble...