Currently, there are no generally accepted definitions for wounds at risk of infection. In clinical practice, too many chronic wounds are regarded as being at risk of infection, and therefore many topical antimicrobials - in terms of frequency and duration of use - are applied to wounds. Based on expert discussion and current knowledge, a clinical assessment score was developed. The objective o...

INTRODUCTION This is the fi rst prospective study done locally to determine the effectiveness of vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy in the healing of chronic diabetic foot ulcers. MATERIALS AND METHODS An electronic vacuum pump was used to apply controlled negative pressure evenly across the wound surface. Changes in wound dimension, presence of wound granulation and infection status of di...

Background: The diagnosis of wound infection is often restricted to the use of clinical signs and symptoms which are not always reliable. Aims: To determine if systemic C-reactive protein (CRP) measurements could be used as a diagnostic marker for wounds whose healing is delayed by the effects of wound bed bioburden. Methods: A comparative descriptive design with a survey method was used. Patie...

THE local use of sulphanilamide and sulphapyridine in wounds is proving valuable both by preventing infection and in controlling established infection. These drugs may be expected to have the same bacteriolytic and bacteriostatic effects in cerebral wounds as in wounds of other tissues, for the reaction of the brain to wounding and infection is basically similar. The reaction of other tissues t...

Patients with acute wounds often delay seeking medical assistance until an incapacitating infection has developed. When such patients come for help at a remote Christian clinic in northern Ghana, West Africa, the goals of care are to resolve and prevent a return of infection, decrease pain, enable an immediate return to normal activities, and facilitate healing. Because the local protocol of ca...

 ABSTRACT Background: The incidence of early wound related complications is assessed in laparoscopic versus open abdominal surgeries. Complications of surgical wounds (esp. wound infections) are considered as a major problem in surgery wards. Complications of surgical wounds are classified as early and late. Common and early complications are hematoma, seroma and wound infection. Methods: The m...

Various agents have been applied topically to treat infected wounds for millennia, but their proper role remains unclear. Topical therapy affords many potential advantages but also has disadvantages. Opinions differ on which clinical signs define wound infection and on whether quantitative microbiological studies are useful. Clinically infected wounds usually require systemic antibiotic therapy...

Topical and systemic antibiotic treatment are essential in the prevention of wound infections. Systemic antibiotics, on other hand, strongly linked to mechanisms resistance, which jeopardize process. The direction antibiotics eschar becomes less reliable deeper burn thicker for local care . As a result, topical appear as viable option, they help maintain “high sustained concentration antimicrob...

- healing of surgical wounds and their complications such as infection or scar formation are of major concern in surgery. tissue glues are advanced to reduce these problems. in a prospective study, we have evaluated surgical wound healing in 76 patients whose surgical wounds were repaired by tissue glues (histoacryl). this study was performed in four leaching hospitals (sina, shariaty, shohada,...

BACKGROUND To investigate the emergency treatment on facial laceration of dog bite wounds and identify whether immediate primary closure is feasible. METHODS Six hundred cases with facial laceration attacked by dog were divided into two groups randomly and evenly. After thorough debridement, the facial lacerations of group A were left open, while the lacerations of group B were undertaken imm...