WITHDRAWN: Therapeutic touch for healing acute wounds. [PDF]
Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2016 Therapeutic Touch (TT) is an alternative therapy that has gained popularity over the past two decades for helping wounds to heal. Practitioners enter a meditative state and pass their hands above the patient's body to find and correct any imbalances in the patient's 'life energy' or chi.
O'Mathúna DP.
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Linking Patient-Reported and Clinician-Assessed Wound Status via Chatbot-Based Digital Surveillance for Wound Infection: Retrospective Observational Study [PDF]
JMIR Formative ResearchBackgroundDigital wound monitoring has become increasingly feasible with the widespread use of smartphones and mobile messaging platforms. Although most previous studies have focused on chronic wounds and demonstrated the clinical
Yung-Cheng Su +2 more
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Role of a topical hydrogel (Dermatix® wound care gel) in acute and chronic wound management: a case series of real-world experiences and expert opinion from Asia [PDF]
Drugs in ContextMoist wound healing, an established paradigm in the management of wounds, accelerates healing by maintaining an optimal microenvironment. Hydrogels, such as the Dermatix®* Wound Care (DWC) gel, possess fluid-retentive and absorptive properties and ...
Chin Yen Lee +8 more
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Prevention and Treatment of Potentially Problematic Acute Wounds to Achieve Full Recovery by Using Platelet-Rich Plasma: Research Results [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical & Clinical Research, 2020 The study presents the outcomes from platelet-rich plasma (PRP) application in treating acute and potentially problematic skin wounds from 2009 to 2016. Fifty-six hospitalized patients with acute skin wounds were divided into two groups: an experimental ...
Tsvetan Sokolov
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Modern Wound Dressings: Hydrogel Dressings
Biomedicines, 2021 Chronic wounds do not progress through the wound healing process in a timely manner and are considered a burden for healthcare system; they are also the most common reason for decrease in patient quality of life.
Valentin Brumberg +3 more
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Cellular Mechanisms in Acute and Chronic Wounds after PDT Therapy: An Update
Biomedicines, 2022 PDT is a two-stage treatment that combines light energy with a photosensitizer designed to destroy cancerous and precancerous cells after light activation. Photosensitizers are activated by a specific wavelength of light energy, usually from a laser. The
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Cellular and Molecular Processes in Wound Healing
Biomedicines, 2023 This review summarizes the recent knowledge of the cellular and molecular processes that occur during wound healing. However, these biological mechanisms have yet to be defined in detail; this is demonstrated by the fact that alterations of events to ...
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Annually, a vast number of patients visits the emergency department for acute wounds. Many wound classification systems exist, but often these were not originally designed for acute wounds.
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Human Wounds and Its Burden: An Updated Compendium of Estimates [PDF]
, 2019 Significance: A 2018 retrospective analysis of Medicare beneficiaries identified that ∼8.2 million people had wounds with or without infections. Medicare cost estimates for acute and chronic wound treatments ranged from $28.1 billion to $96.8 billion ...
Sen, Chandan K.
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Immunology of Acute and Chronic Wound Healing
Biomolecules, 2021 Skin wounds greatly affect the global healthcare system, creating a substantial burden on the economy and society. Moreover, the situation is exacerbated by low healing rates, which in fact are overestimated in reports.
Kamila Raziyeva +5 more
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