If your injury requires stitches, follow your doctor’s advice on how to care for the wound and when to get the stitches removed. This may help minimize the appearance of a scar. Apply sunscreen to the ...

Using a combination of erosion and morphological dilation operators, keeping fixed the size of the structuring element (kernel) involved, we extracted for each image the associated peri-wound mask. An ...

When you get a scratch or cut, you clean it up, put a bandage on it, and in a week or two, it’s healed. But what happens if ...

bandaging may need to be replaced more frequently depending on how the wound heals. Be sure to closely follow a doctor's instructions when taking care of a wound at home. What are the types of wound ...

In spite of concerted efforts to improve wound care, nursing homes continue to be dogged by many peripheral issues, chief among them being pay and workload complaints. “When I started working in ...

The 10 clinical posters being presented highlight the continuously expanding body of evidence in support of the implementation of our technology as part of the standard of care for wound infection ...

Serosanguineous drainage lasts for a few days as a wound heals. However, there are times when the drainage may last for longer periods or have an abnormal consistency, color, or smell. If you notice ...

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Nigerians now have access to Clinisept+ Wound Care, a UK-developed wound management solution. Prince Andrew Eweka of Nigeria and Paul Burgess, MBE, from the United Kingdom, partnered to introduce ...