OBJECTIVES To discuss how patient considerations and the initial wound environment can affect wound treatment and summarize the way in which the initial US Wound Registry measures capture aspects of the DIME (Debridement/devitalized tissue, Infection or inflammation, Moisture balance, and wound Edge preparation/wound depth) principles. DISCUSSION The treatment of chronic wounds often involves...

This paper presents a tele-wound framework for monitoring chronic wound status based on color variation over a period of time. This will facilitate patients at remote locations to connect to medical experts through mobile devices. Further this will help medical professionals to monitor and manage the wounds in more timely, accurate and precise manner using the proposed framework. Tele-medical a...

BACKGROUND Determining whether systemic corticosteroids impair wound healing is a clinically relevant topic that has important management implications. METHODS We reviewed literature on the effects of corticosteroids on wound healing from animal and human studies searching MEDLINE from 1949 to 2011. RESULTS Some animal studies show a 30% reduction in wound tensile strength with perioperativ...

Significance: Bacterial burden is believed to play a significant role in impaired wound healing of chronic wounds and the development of infection-related complications. The standard of care in the clinic relies upon cultivation-dependent methods to identify microorganisms. These assays are biased toward microorganisms that thrive in isolation under laboratory conditions. Recent Advances: Signi...

Background/Objective: Chronic wound (CW) represents a major burden on the individual patients who are typically challenged with many underlying health related complications. Stress is now recognized as universal premorbid factor associated risk factors of various chronic diseases. This study utilized socio-demographic data CW and analyzed it against salivary cortisol, known marker psychosocial ...

A chronic wound is that wound which does not heal in an regular set of stages and in a expected amount of time or wounds that do not heal within three months are often considered chronic. Chronic wounds often remain in the inflammatory stage for long time. and some never heal or may take years together . Chronic wound patients most often report pain as dominant in their lives. It has been obser...

We analyzed the data of a controlled clinical study of the chronic wound healing acceleration as a result of electrical stimulation. The study involved a conventional conservative treatment, sham treatment, biphasic pulsed current, and direct current electrical stimulation. Data was collected over 10 years and suffices for an analysis with machine learning methods. So far, only a limited number...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of local anesthetic wound infiltration for the treatment of acute and chronic postoperative pain is controversial and there are no detailed studies. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of ropivacaine wound infiltration on chronic pain after breast surgery. METHODS In this prospective, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-contr...