times the management of chronic wounds can become challenging for clinicians. In the article by Sibbald et al (1) they emphasize that wound healing should be achieved through an interprofessional team approach where the focus is holistic‚ focusing not only on the patient’s wound but on the patient as a whole. Once the cause of the wound is identified‚ the wound can be classified into three categories: healable‚ maintenance and non healable (1). Referring to the wound bed preparation paradigm discussed
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anorexia‚ and an infected‚ slow-healing foot wound. Blood glucose was 579 mg/dL and BUN was 21. Was admitted with exacerbation of unmanaged diabetes mellitus‚ diabetic ketoacidosis‚ and gastritis r/t excess aspirin intake. 3. Significant Secondary Medical Diagnoses and Past Medical History (include past hospitalizations/surgeries) Medical hx: Essential HTN‚ hyperlipidemia‚ hypercholesterolemia‚ GERD‚ DVT‚ & neuralgia. Surgical debridement of foot wound on 9/25. 4. Medications: Name
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of the skin‚ triggering the automatic response of wound healing. Otherwise the standard removal of ink using laser can produce scars depending on the depth of the colour. Scarring tissue heavily involves fibroblasts and the specialised myofibroblast role is to replace the ECM components. The scarring and aging of the skin results in increase friction and declined mechanical properties-compression‚ tension and elasticity (Richard Wong). Wound healing can be described as a ‘sophistically regulated process
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into a large‚ poor Irish family; he was one of the thirteen that were able to survive. He was different to his other siblings because he was born with cerebral palsy and was unable to control his speech or his movement‚ apart from his left foot. He used his left foot to communicate with his family‚ and also used it to paint and type. It gave him a lot of confidence and joy in his life. At the time when Christy was born‚ there was a global depression and most people were suffering financial problems
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The third phase of wound healing is granulation phase‚ which takes place to repair the damaged cells by regenerating new cells. This phase consists of different subphases‚ which can last up to 4 weeks in the clean and uncontaminated wound. These sub phases do not happen in discrete time frames but constitute an overall and ongoing process. The sub phases are "fibroplasia‚ matrix deposition‚ angiogenesis and re-epithelialization" (Cho & Lo‚ 1998). The first sub phase of granulation process is
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A Healing Wound A few years ago‚ My school took a trip to Washington‚ D.C. We got to visit many historical monuments that were even more breathtaking in person‚ but the experience at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will forever be embedded in my mind. It was a beautiful day in Washington‚ D.C. our school had just walked over from the Lincoln Memorial and we were approaching the Vietnam Memorial Wall. I did not have very high expectations because I didn’t know anybody who fought or died in the war
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Beneficial Effects Of Foot Care Nursing For People With Diabetes Mellitus: An Uncontrolled Before And After Intervention Study Beneficial Effects Of Foot Care Nursing For People With Diabetes Mellitus: An Uncontrolled Before And After Intervention Study The article by Fujiwara and colleagues published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing discusses the benefits of nursing programs to help prevent‚ treat‚ and reduce recurrences of diabetic foot complications. Based on eligibility criteria‚ 88 people
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Paris. Kokwaro‚ J.O.‚ 1993. Medicinal Plants in the East Africa. 2nd eddn. East African Literature Bureau‚ Nairobi‚ Kenya. Kumar‚ S.‚ Rashnmi and D. Kumar‚ 2010. Evaluation of antibiotic activity of Euphorbia hirta Linn. In streptozotocin induced diabetic mice Nelofar‚ A.‚ T. Suhail‚ S. Ahmad‚ N. Afza and S.T. Khan‚ 2006. Evaluation of Antibacterial Activity of a Locally Available Medicinal Plant Euphorbia hirta Ogbulie‚ J.N.‚ C.C. Ogueke‚ I.C. Okoli and B.N. Anyanwu‚ 2007. Antibacterial activities
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Role of Guava Leaves (Psidium Guavaja) in Wound Healing By Marie Curie Group AQUINO‚ Jason Benedict M. CRUZ‚ Arriane DS GONZALES‚ Catrina GUTIERREZ‚ Regine B. LUI‚ Charwin Kenneth A. VILLAMAR‚ Freidrich Marvin * Abstract As the title implies‚ guava leaf is the main subject for this research. Little had been known that the leaf of this plant has tannin/tannic acid that constitutes to the healing progress of the wound. The researchers would determine the difference between the ointment and the
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The Healing of an Unknown Wound Sebastian was a perfect German‚ fiercely patriotic and deeply loyal to the Nazi ideology. Growing up amid Nazi propaganda‚ he had a distorted view of the world‚ seeing only the supposed superiority of his race and the oppression of others as justified. His perspective was clouded‚ his beliefs as strong as steel. He was then told to work at a concentration camp in lower Germany. The horrors he witnessed in the camp were like no other‚ the inhuman treatment of those
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