Violence against victims of killings and abuse living can occur in various forms violence/trauma, it be the form blunt violence, sharp violence or other trauma, either jointly separately. Victims mechanical trauma are who mostly served clinical forensic medical services, cases generally experience bruises, abrasions lacerations. Knowledge related to injuries/trauma science is called Traumatolog...

Randomized controlled trials in wound care generalize poorly because they exclude patients with significant comorbid conditions. Research using real-world wound care patients is hindered by lack of validated methods to stratify patients according to severity of underlying illnesses. We developed a comprehensive stratification system for patients with wounds that predicts healing likelihood. Com...

Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents with chronic wounds require more resources and have relatively high healthcare expenditures compared to Medicare patients without wounds. A retrospective cohort study was conducted using 2006 Medicare Chronic Condition Warehouse claims data for SNF, inpatient, outpatient hospital, and physician supplier settings along with 2006 Long-Term Care M...

UNLABELLED Amniotic membrane (AM) can promote proper epithelialization with suppression of excessive fibrosis by creating a supportive milieu for regeneration of chronic ulcer bed. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to investigate whether AM scaffold can modulate the healing of a wound by promoting tissue reconstruction rather than promoting scar tissue formation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS...

BACKGROUND  Clostridium difficile causes diarrhea that ranges from a benign, self-limiting antibiotic use-associated disease to a life-threatening pseudomembranous colitis. Clostridium difficile has rarely been isolated in extraintestinal infections. Our objective was to characterize clinical features and risk factors of these infections. METHODS Extraintestinal C. difficile infections (CDIs) w...

Since the introduction of the term “wound ballistics”[1,2] indicating the study of the wounding mechanisms of missiles [3], extensive experimental research on this field has beenconductedby investigators with a military background [4-7]. In the context of wound ballistics, the term missile is used to denote various types of small projectiles, such as bullets and fragments, that have enough kine...

OSTOMY WOUND MANAGEMENT MARCH 2009 www.o-wm.com Managing Stage IV pressure ulcers presents a challenge to the healthcare community, particularly in the home health setting. During the initial home care visit, the wound and related management issues must be thoroughly assessed and questions addressed such as who will be able to perform the wound care, are appropriate support surfaces for both be...

Objective.To estimate the impact of preoperative biliary decompression inpatients, suffering tumorogenic obturation jaundice, complicated by ascending cholangitis, on development postoperative complications.
 Materials and methods. The one-centre retrospective investigation treatment results was conducted in 136 patients, jaundice. In 84 patients done (Group I). 52 not performed II).In all...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to describe the treatment of injuries resulting from land mine explosions using a holistic approach that includes gauze-based negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and encompasses wound bed preparation, exudate management, and infection control. METHOD In the treatment of 3 traumatic injuries, each requiring limb amputation, we describe the applicatio...