The article analyzes Claudio Magris’s novel Blameless, which confronts its anonymous protagonist (and also reader) with the emptiness of whitewashed walls Risiera, Trieste crematorium. This whiteness becomes a “symptom” (Didi Huberman), i.e. whitened trace of, as narrator puts it, “the real collective trauma city”. reader this – that points to “Trieste wound”, in way, demonstarting temporal thi...

BACKGROUND To measure the frequency and nature of wounds in patients treated in general practice and to describe the patients' tetanus vaccination status and the sources providing information about this status. METHODS A descriptive, prospective, week-long, national electronic survey was conducted among general practitioners within the Sentinelles network. RESULTS The participation rate was...

Internal hemorrhaging is a leading cause of death after traumatic injury on the battlefield. Although several surgical approaches such as the use of fibrin glue and tissue adhesive have been commercialized to achieve hemostasis, these approaches are difficult to employ on the battlefield and cannot be used for incompressible wounds. Here, we present shear-thinning nanocomposite hydrogels compos...

Bacterial colonisation of wounds may delay wound healing. Modern silver-containing dressings are antimicrobial, yet cellular toxicity is a serious side-effect. We provide data for a newly formulated silver-containing ointment dressing, Atrauman Ag, for antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity. Atrauman Ag effectively killed a panel of commensal skin as well as pathogenic bacterial strains while ...

OBJECTIVES We reviewed the use of negative pressure wound treatment (NPWT) for problematic wounds. METHODS A systematic literature review was undertaken to assess the effectiveness and safety of NPWT. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing NPWT were included. RESULTS A total of 14 RCTs were included. Trials included patients with pressure wounds (2), post-traumatic wounds (3), diabet...

Malignant degeneration of wounds is rare and often misdiagnosed. Delay in diagnosis may result in a worse prognosis. The aim of this study is to determine the number of skin cancers associated with chronic skin ulcers in our facility over a period of 10 years. Between January 2002 and December 2012, a total of about 1000 patients had consulted with us for chronic wounds, especially of vascular,...

Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is an established method of debridement of nonhealing wounds. Despite intense clinical research about its efficacy and effects of substances produced by the larvae, growth and development of maggots in the wounds remain largely unexplored. In the present study, the bags with larvae (n = 52), which had been used to debride traumatic, ischemic, diabetic and venous...

BACKGROUND Skin compromised by traumatic scars and contractures can manifest decreased resistance to shearing and other forces, while increased tension and skin fragility contribute to chronic erosions and ulcerations. Chronic wounds possess inflammatory mediator profiles and other characteristics, such as the presence of biofilms, that can inhibit healing. OBSERVATIONS Three patients with mu...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of negative-pressure wound therapy as a bridge to definitive closure of traumatic extremity wounds has been demonstrated in adults. Gauze-based negative-pressure wound therapy has been used to facilitate granulation tissue formation and promote closure in a number of wound types. In this study, the authors evaluated the efficacy of gauze-based negative-pressure wound the...

A novel bioartificial dermal regeneration template has been developed using platelet-rich plasma and acellular animal skin collagen sponge for the treatment of larger area and full thickness skin wounds. This platelet-rich plasma-collagen sponge keeps native skin structure and contains huge amounts of growth factors. The effect of this bioartificial dermal regeneration template was tested in vi...