OBJECTIVE Post-operative laminectomy wounds are frequently accompanied by seromas. Post-operative wound drainage may be colonized or infected. The differentiation of wound colonization from infection is difficult for non-infectious disease physicians. METHODS External chart reviewers classified 31/1531 laminectomies (over three years) as post-operative wound infections. We re-evaluated these ...

Postoperative wound infection is of great importance to both surgeon and patient. All surgeons know that postoperative wound infection means morbidity, anxiety, longer hospitalization, higher cost; not to forget the embarrassment to the surgeons. However, it is still a common surgical complication despite other advances in modern medicine. This study was conducted to find out the incidence of p...

Figure 1. Longstanding, nonhealing, infected wound to the dorsum of left hand.

Despite a lot of researchers were suggested that cold laser therapy can enhance healing by reducing inflammation, increase cells proliferation, enhanced collagen synthesis, its use still controversial .The optimum parameters have been still not defined .we aimed to study the effect of cold laser therapy at a constant power density (Irradiance) at different illumination time (5,15minutes) on hea...

In the current study, a chemically modified collagen bilayer dressing with ciprofloxacin was prepared from type-I collagen. The modified collagen was reconstituted into a membrane and sponge and the drug Ciprofloxacin-HCl was incorporated and fabricated into a bilayer dressing. In vitro release pattern of the dressing was analysed in PBS which recorded release for 6 days. The efficacy of the dr...

BACKGROUND Bacterial biofilm is recognized as a major detriment to wound healing. The efficacy of traditional wound care against biofilm has never been studied. The authors evaluated the effect of clinical strategies against biofilm-infected wounds in a quantitative, in vivo model. METHODS Using a rabbit ear biofilm model, wounds were inoculated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa or left as uninfect...

Skin wounds are continuously exposed to bacteria and can easily become infected. Infected wounds require antibiotic treatment, and infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria are an important public health problem. Antimicrobial peptides have broad-spectrum antibacterial activity, induce little or no drug resistance and may be suitable for treating skin infections caused by drug-resistant bact...