Visual inspection of intact skin is commonly used when assessing persons for pressure ulcers and bruises. Melanin masks skin discoloration hindering visual inspection in people with darkly pigmented skin. The objective of the project is to develop a point of care technology capable of detecting erythema and bruises in persons with darkly pigmented skin. Two significant hardware components, a co...

AIMS To investigate whether it is possible to determine the age of a bruise in a child in clinical practice by means of a systematic review. METHODS An all language literature search up to 2004. Included studies assessed the age of bruises in live children less than 18 years old. Excluded: review articles, expert opinion, and single case reports. Standardised data extraction and critical appr...

IMPORTANCE Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury can be a devastating injury that without surgery may lead to chronic instability. Although surgical reconstruction recreates the stabilising constraint of the native ACL, postoperative pain and subsequent arthrosis may follow. OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this systematic review is to determine whether the presence of a bone bruise foll...

ABSTRACT- For most fruit types, including apples, bruising is the most common type of postharvest mechanical injury. Bruise susceptibility was investigated in 3 commercial cultivars (‘JazzTM’, ‘Granny Smith’ and ‘Fuji’) and among a range of 4 different fruit sizes (commercial counts of 135, 120, 100, and 88) in each cultivar. Bruising was carried out by dropping a uniform round steel ball (110g...

BACKGROUND Estimating the probability that a donor will have or not have an adverse event is useful for staff knowledge to give blood donors reassurance upon request. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS One-thousand donors from the general donor pool were interviewed for seven potential adverse events 3 weeks after a 525-mL whole-blood phlebotomy. The four most common adverse events were bruise (22.7%),...

Bacteriological studies revealed that normal tissue, air sacs, feathers, skin of birds, poultry feed, gut, and chicken droppings were sources of the predominant organisms, including staphylococci, found in bruised poultry tissue. Further investigation of normal tissue revealed that after the intramuscular injection of Staphylococcus aureus, marker strain (MS), the organism was eliminated from t...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether physicians can estimate accurately the age of an accidental bruise on direct physical examination. METHODS Children who presented to the emergency department of a children's hospital with accidental bruises of known age and origin had demographic data and information about their injury recorded. History-blinded emergency pediatricians, other physicians, and trai...

This study pursues the detection of bruised areas caused by mechanical impact on Golden Delicious apples using chlorophyll fluorescence imagery. When a fruit is impacted by a mechanical force and a bruise occurs, the chlorophyll nuclei inside the peel are damaged, which causes a reduction in fluorescence excitation compared to non-impacted areas. This difference allows automated detection of br...