Background/Aims: Inguinal incisions are a common route of access in vascular surgery. Due to anatomical challenges and a diverse bacterial flora in this area, surgical site infections (SSI) represent a common, debilitating and sometimes life-threatening complication. The INVIPS-Trial evaluates the role of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) on closed inguinal incisions in elective vascular s...

Background: The wound dressings perform a crucial role in cutaneous wounds management due to their ability protect and promote dermal epidermal tissue regeneration. Aim: the aim was evaluate effectiveness of using hydrogel/nano silver-based dressing vs. traditional on diabetic foot healing. Methods: Sixty patients with type-2 diabetes hospitalized for treatment were recruited from selected Surg...

An Unna's paste bandage has been conventional for the treatment of varicose eczema and ulceration for years. With the advent of elastoplast applied in the Dickson Wright method, its use, which was messy, has contracted, but it has continued to be used by those who knew its merits, and also as an alternative dressing for the appreciable percentage of patients intolerant to elastoplast. Thus Unna...

OBJECTIVE To compare the ability of activated charcoal dressings with that of a hydrocolloid dressing to reduce the wound area of chronic wounds. METHOD Two separate randomised controlled trials (RCTs) were undertaken; both used the same hydrocolloid as the control. One RCT compared Actisorb (without silver) with the control on chronic pressure ulcers and the other RCT compared Actisorb Silve...

First, some basic notions of transparent intensional logic (TIL) are introduced. Secondly, it is studied how natural-language interrogatives are analyzed in TIL.

Retained heterosis for growth, carcass, and meat traits was estimated in F3 generation castrate male progeny in three composite populations finished on two levels of dietary energy density (2.82 Mcal of ME and 3.07 Mcal of ME and 11.50% CP) and serially slaughtered at four end points at intervals of 20 to 22 d. Breed effects were evaluated in nine parental breeds (Red Poll [R], Hereford [H], An...

Fig. 1 A typical tubular dress. But is it as safe as you think? To the Editor, Tubular gauze finger dressing is a commonly applied wound covering (Fig. 1). The total number of applications per year is unknown. In many emergency and clinic situations, its application is delegated to the more junior clinic staff. How much training with this material the people using it have is another unknown. Se...

An audit of resource use was undertaken in 35 patients treated by two ambulatory wound care providers in Germany (one medical practice and one outpatient wound clinic). A new wound dressingi was introduced with appropriate education and training in its use, and the frequency of dressing change and types of dressings used were recorded before and after adopting the new approach. Clinicians’ view...

Objective: Phenytoin is a medication primarily used to treat seizures, but it has been discovered have the potential for wound healing due its ability increase collagen production, promote new blood vessel growth, reduce inflammation, fight infections, and encourage skin growth. These effects are particularly useful chronic wounds like pressure ulcers, diabetic traumatic wounds, venous ulcers. ...