Experiences With Surgical Treatment of Chronic Lower Limb Ulcers at a Tertiary Hospital in Northwestern Tanzania: A Prospective Review of 300 Cases. [PDF]
, 2012 Chronic lower limb ulcers constitute a major public health problem of great important all over the world and contribute significantly to high morbidity and long-term disabilities. There is paucity of information regarding chronic lower limb ulcers in our
Chalya, Phillipo L +6 more
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi +12 more
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Predictive value of Braden Scale in pressure ulcer occurrence in hospitalized patients
Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery, 2013 Introduction: Pressure ulcer is a painful, disabling process which has side effects such as decreased quality of life and increased treatment cost in treatment process.
Samira Amirifar +4 more
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Prevalence of postoperative pressure ulcer: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Electronic Physician, 2016 Introduction: A pressure ulcer is a serious safety issue in healthcare systems. The patient’s rate of infection with an ulcer, especially a postoperative ulcer, is critical, as it is dictated by factors such as being in a fixed position during surgery,
Vida Shafipour +3 more
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The Efficacy of Pressure Ulcer Treatment With Cathodal and Cathodal-Anodal High-Voltage Monophasic Pulsed Current: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial [PDF]
, 2017 Background. Studies show that anode and cathode electrical stimulation (ES) promotes the healing of wounds, but specific protocols for both electrodes are not available. Objective. To compare the effectiveness of cathodal versus cathodal+anodal ES in the
Blaszczak, Edward +8 more
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Modulus‐Switchable Miniature Robots for Biomedical Applications: A Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Materials, robot designs, proof‐of‐concept functions, and biomedical applications of modulus‐switchable miniature robots. Miniature soft robots have shown great potential in biomedical applications due to their excellent controllability and suitable mechanical properties in biological environments.
Chunyun Wei, Yibin Wang, Jiangfan Yu
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Therapie chronischer Wunden mit wassergefiltertem Infrarot A (wIRA) [PDF]
, 2008 The central portion of chronic wounds is often hypoxic and relatively hypothermic, representing a deficient energy supply of the tissue, which impedes wound healing or even makes it impossible.
Daeschlein, Georg +5 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This article introduces a soft wearable eyelid sling device incorporating a hydraulic soft artificial muscle (SAM) for achieving complete closure of an eyelid. The SAM is driven by a cam mechanism that provides a displacement profile closely matched with those of a healthy eyelid.
Patrick Pruscino +7 more
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Public Health ChallengesThis study summarizes the nursing management of a patient with cerebral infarction and sacrococcygeal Stage 2 pressure ulcer, focusing on the effectiveness of local oxygen therapy combined with human albumin.
Fengrong Tang
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Incidence of pressure ulcer in patients who were admitted to open heart cardiac surgery intensive care unit [PDF]
, 2016 Background and aims: Cardiac surgery patients are at high risk of pressure ulcers. In the present study, we determined the incidence of pressure ulcer in patients who were admitted to open heart cardiac surgery intensive care unit and related risk ...
Alipoor Heydari, Mahmoud. +4 more
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