Critical Wound Complication Following Major Amputation for Acute Limb Ischemia [PDF]
Modern Medicine, 2021 Limb amputation has a severe somatic and psychological impact, that can furthermore have complications, which lead to increased morbidity, mortality, hospitalization days, health care costs, delay prosthetic application, and social reintegration.
Luiz-Sorin VASIU +6 more
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Negative pressure wound therapy decreases mortality in a murine model of burn-wound sepsis involving Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BackgroundThe colonization of burn wounds by Pseudomonas aeruginosa can lead to septic shock, organ injuries, and high mortality rates. We hypothesized that negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) would decrease invasion and proliferation of P. aeruginosa
Yang Liu +7 more
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Clinical analysis of patients with deep sternal wound infection-induced sepsis: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. Background. This study aimed to summarize the clinical characteristics of patients with deep sternal wound infection-induced sepsis after median sternotomy and improve the treatment outcomes of infection-related sepsis. Methods.
Bin Song +5 more
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Severe complications after negative pressure wound therapy in burned wounds: two case reports [PDF]
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2014 Haitao Ren,1 Yuan Li21Department of Burns and Wound Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China; 2Department of Ultrasound, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang ...
Ren H, Li Y
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Personalities, Preferences and Practicalities: Educating Nurses in Wound Sepsis in the British Hospital, 1870-1920. [PDF]
Soc Hist Med, 2018 The history of nursing education has often been portrayed as the subordination of nursing to medicine. Yet, as scholars are increasingly acknowledging, the professional boundaries between medicine and nursing were fluid in the nineteenth and early ...
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Risk factors and management of surgical site infection in caesarean section patients at a teaching hospital [PDF]
New Indian Journal of OBGYNObjectives: This study was conducted to recognize the risk factors particularly the modifiable ones that may be related to the woman, pregnancy or to the technique itself and implementing the strategies to prevent, diagnose and treat infection so that ...
Sowjanya SB +3 more
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Clinical usage of honey as a wound dressing: An update [PDF]
, 2004 Honey is an ancient treatment that is increasingly earning its place in modern wound care. Evidence suggests it compares with other dressings in terms of its antibacterial properties, ease of use and ability to promote a moist ...
Molan, Peter C.
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Sepsis episodes caused by pressure injuries in critical illness: A retrospective observational cohort study [PDF]
, 2023 BACKGROUND: Critically -ill patients (CIPs) with pressure injuries (PIs) may develop bloodstream infections (BSIs). PURPOSE: To identify predisposing factors and discuss diagnosis and management of sepsis -related PIs in CIPs.
Kaya, Pınar Küçükdemirci +5 more
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L-arginine: A unique amino acid for improving depressed wound immune function following hemorrhage [PDF]
, 2002 Objective: To determine whether L-arginine has any salutary effects on wound immune cell function following trauma-hemorrhage. Background. Depressed wound immune function contributes to an increased incidence of wound infections following hemorrhage ...
Hatz, Rudolf A. +16 more
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Incidence of Wound Sepsis and related Factors in Post-Operative Patients in Kampala International University Teaching Hospital Ishaka Bushenyi-Western Uganda [PDF]
, 2023 Post-operative wound sepsis is among the commonest complications of surgery, especially in developing countries. This complication often increases the burden on patients; increases hospitalization duration, painful wound dressings and other procedures ...
Ssebintu, Micheal
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