BACKGROUND Recent work suggests that injuries can heal faster if treated by lasers emitting 670-nm red light. LED lights emitting 670-nm light are now available. This suggests that inexpensive and easy-to-use 670-nm LED lights might help accelerate cutaneous wound healing. OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate the effect of 670-nm LED light on wound healing in SKH-1 hairless mice. METHODS...

The different types of acute skin wounds, including surgically created wounds, partial thickness injuries, burns, and traumatic wound, involve significant tissue loss and wound healing duration which could take time. Although the wound healing process varies among the different types of wounds, there are more similarities than differences between these healing process (Monaco and Lawrence, 2003...

Significance: More than 2 million eye injuries and infections occur each year in the United States that leave civilians and military members with reduced or complete vision loss due to the lack of effective therapeutics. Severe ocular injuries and infections occur in varied settings including the home, workplace, and battlefields. In this review, we discuss the potential of developing antimicro...

Burns and other severe skin injuries alter cutaneous perception of pain, temperature, and touch. During skin wound healing, peripheral nerve regeneration can occur from nerve endings of the wound bed, however, a functional recovery after an injury is often not sufficient due to scar formation or impaired wound healing.

BACKGROUND This paper reports on the aetiology and outcome of childhood open and closed globe eye injuries presenting to the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia from January 2000 to December 2008. DESIGN Hospital-based retrospective study. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred three cases of childhood eye injuries identified in a nine-year period, comprising 81 open globe and 122 closed g...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence of minor injuries and to study the wound care practices of school children. DESIGN A fortnightly follow up of urban (n = 112) and rural (n = 110) high school children was done in Chandigarh and rural Haryana between 1990-1992. Initial point prevalence survey was followed by fortnightly follow up survey involving interview for assessing incidence and wound c...

Maxillofacial injuries constitute 16% of all war-related injuries. This review focuses on data available from military and civilian studies to provide evidence-based recommendations for the modification of infections associated with combat-related injuries to the head and neck. The major emphasis of this review is on the study of subsequent infection, perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis, de...

background trauma, in addition to mortality and disability experienced by an individual, imposes direct and indirect economic and social costs on a community. traditionally, trauma is a disease of young and middle age adults, an age group which is known to be the most dynamic and economically productive of the community. increasing our knowledge concerning the etiology and patterns of trauma se...

BACKGROUND For successful wound healing of extensive burn injuries, air circulation around the wound and drainage of wound secretion is inevitable. Therefore, typically extensive burn injuries are treated by using a specifi cally adapted hospital bed (e.g. Clinitron AF). The patient is bedded in a mass of micro glass balls, which are swirled by the application of a strong air current to support...