Book review:
 Veprinska, Anna. Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 203 pages. ISBN 978-3-030-34319-4. Hb. €74.89.

This case series presents two females, 53 and 33 years old, with thyroidectomy wounds that failed to heal, 16 and 18 weeks, respectively, following the operation. The wounds were explored with removal of gauze and catgut suture. The patients made remarkable improvement and the wounds healed satisfactorily within seven days. Surgical materials forgotten intraoperatively, wrong use of and / or in...

 Between 5% and 10% of cancer patients develop malignant wounds. In vitro and some clinical studies suggest that silver- or honey-coated dressings may have an antibacterial effect in nonmalignant wounds, but their possible antibacterial effect in malignant wounds remains unknown. A prospective, randomized, single-blind controlled clinical study was conducted to evaluate the bact...

BACKGROUND Tracheostomy wounds are commonly encountered in children but rarely reported. Relatively few treatments are available or have been investigated to manage this problem. Healing times for pediatric tracheostomy wounds are often unpredictable and protracted. Recent use of maltodextrin gel (MD) and a silver alginate sponge (AG) at our institution has demonstrated expedited healing and in...

Most surgical wounds are categorised as acute wounds, healing without complication in an expected time frame (Bale and Jones, 1997). However, like all wounds, healing is affected by intrinsic and extrinsic factors that may result in complications.

Regeneration in many organisms involves the formation of a blastema, which differentiates and organizes into the appropriate missing tissues. How blastema pattern is generated and integrated with pre-existing tissues is a central question in the field of regeneration. Planarians are free-living flatworms capable of rapidly regenerating from small body fragments [1]. A cell cluster at the anteri...

Although the problem of the healing of wounds has commanded much interest for a long time, the metabolic changes which accompany wound healing have been seriousiy investigated only since the early work of Howes and his associates (1-4) has appeared. Much of the literature in this field has been concerned with an empirical approach to the acceleration of the healing processes. The lack of quanti...

“A multidisciplinary approach to postoperative care involving the surgical team is required to improve the overall management of surgical wounds.” Surgery is one of the most important treatments offered by today’s NHS. As a result, the care delivered to patients in the pre-operative, intra-operative and postoperative stages form one of the cornerstones of nursing care. This article provides an ...

IHE simple and common type of bullet wound shovs an cntrance and exit wound; but it is well knowin that a bullet often re-enters the body an(d a second pair of wounds results. Suppose, however, that the first exit w,Nound and the second entrance wound are so close togetlher that they form only one wound. The patient would then have three woun1ds an(1 nio lodged bullet. Tlhe second exit wound ma...

14 Wound Essentials 2015, Vol 10 No 2 “The prevalence of chronic venous disease does not appear to be decreasing despite evidence that compression therapy can be effective if applied correctly and tolerated by patients.” Chronic venous disease is known to affect up to 50% of the adult population and it is estimated that 1% of individuals will suffer from venous leg ulceration during their lifet...