Volume 27 - Issue 8 - August 2015

Column

Editorial

Amputation? Surely Not!

08/12/2015

Terry Treadwell

08/12/2015

Wounds

Evidence Corner

Serial Debridement Under Scrutiny

08/12/2015

Laura Bolton

Serial sharp debridement, also called maintenance debridement, is suggested to benefit chronic wounds by removing biofilm, which may precede some infections.1 While debridement of necrotic tissue is part of standard care for most chronic...

Serial sharp debridement, also...

08/12/2015

Wounds

Feature

Case Report and Brief Review

Evidence of Intensive Autolytic Debridement With a Self-Adaptive Wound Dressing

08/12/2015

Alexander M. Reyzelman

Mher Vartivarian

The authors report 2 challenging cases with large, nonresponsive VLUs. A 52-year-old female patient, Case 1, presented with a VLU of 91.4cm2 (10.5 cm x 8.7 cm); and a 58-year-old female patient, Case 2, presented with bilateral VLUs, the...

The authors report 2 challenging...

08/12/2015

Wounds

Original Research

Evaluation of Wound Healing Efficacy of an Antimicrobial Spray Dressing at Skin Donor Sites

08/12/2015

Lien-Guo Dai

Keng-Yen Fu

Pai-Shan Hsieh

Yu-Min Hung

Yi-Wen Wang

Li-Chuan Hsia

Shun-Cheng Chang

Chih-Hsin Wang

Shou-Cheng Teng

Shyi-Gen Chen

Tim-Mo Chen

Niann-Tzyy Dai

08/12/2015

Wounds

Review

Deep Frostbite Treated With Hyperbaric Oxygen and Thrombolytic Therapies

08/11/2015

Brian Higdon

Laura Youngman

Michelle Regehr

Andy Chiou

08/11/2015

Wounds

Original Research

Characteristics of Improvised Explosive Device Trauma Casualties in the Gaza Strip and Other Combat Regions: The Israeli Experience

08/11/2015

Liran Barzilai

Moti Harats

Itay Wiser

Oren Weissman

Noam Domniz

Elon Glassberg

Demetris Stavrou

Isaac Zilinsky

Eyal Winkler

Josef Haik

The authors present a case series of 5 Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers wounded by an IED presenting a typical and similar pattern of burns to their faces, trunks, and limbs, in addition to ocular, ear/nose/throat, and orthopedic...

The authors present a case...

08/11/2015

Wounds