Background: Preexisting guidelines about clinical managementof cutaneous wounds are based on wound dressing and avoidingwater exposure for at least 48 hours. In this study, infectionrate in the patients who underwent melanocytic nevus surgerywith dressed dry wounds were compared with the patients whoallowed their wounds to become wet.Method: In a controlled randomized clinical trial study, thei...

A stab wound to neck is an infrequent but highly important presentation to the ED in Australasia. Injuries to the two large neurovascular bundles that are vital to life might occur with associated injuries to midline aerodigestive structures. A literature review was undertaken to discuss the assessment and management of this injury in the emergency medicine setting.

Wound healing is a complex tissue regeneration process that promotes the growth of new tissue to provide the body with the necessary barrier from the outside environment. In the class of non-healing wounds, diabetic wounds, and ulcers, dressing materials that are available clinically (e.g., gels and creams) have demonstrated only a slow improvement with current available technologies. Among all...

The treatment of wounds by atmospheric pressure plasmas in the context of plasma medicine typically proceeds through a liquid layer covering exposed cells. The wounds and their liquid covering often have irregular shapes with electrical properties (i.e. conductivity and permittivities) that may differ not only from wound-to-wound but also for a single wound as healing proceeds. The differing sh...

Chronic wounds constitute a significant and growing biomedical burden. With the increasing growth of populations prone to dysfunctional wound healing, there is an urgent and unmet need for novel strategies to both prevent and treat these complications. Tissue engineering offers the potential to create functional skin, and the synergistic efforts of biomedical engineers, material scientists, and...

BACKGROUND War wounds produce a significant burden on medical facilities in wartime. Workload from the recent conflict was documented in order to guide future medical needs. METHODS All data on war injuries were collected prospectively. This information was supplemented with a review of all patients admitted during the study period. RESULTS During the first 2 weeks of the conflict, the sole...

wound is a break in the outer layer of skin. there are several different methods to provoke wound healing process, consisting topically or orally administration of medicinal drugs or herbal remedies. persian shallot, allium hirtifolium which belongs to the same genus of garlic,naturally grows in different parts of iran. in this study, we have avaluated the wound healing activity of hydro-alcoho...

Searching MEDLINE, CINAHL, a database of the Royal College of Nurses, and other resources via the Internet were searched from 1980 to 1996 using the keywords 'leg ulcer' and 'community' or 'clinics'. Additional material was identified by handsearching 12 key journals from 1991 to 1995, and by contacting the Cochrane Wounds Group and experts in the field. Only English language articles were incl...