Wound healing is a complex process for the body. There are many factors that are involved in the process of wound healing. Surgical technologists need to be aware of how wounds are classified to show level of contamination, the healing process, complications that can delay healing to patients, and the implications.
According to J. Zinn (2012), “In 1964, the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council1 published its land- mark study on the use of ultraviolet lights in the OR, and the era of classifying wounds by the contamination present (or the potential for contamination) began.” The categories for wound healing were originally put into place by The American College for surgeons and then the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) modified them (J. Zinn, 2012, p. 274). The first is Class I or clean wounds. These are wounds that are clean and do not enter any tracts such as the gastrointestinal tract (GI tract), respiratory tract, and urinary tract. An example would be a clean incision for a surgery (J. Zinn, 2012, p. 275). Second is Class II or clean contaminated wounds. These are uncontaminated wounds or incisions that enter a tract (Mulholland and Doherty, 2006, p. 141) An example of this is a hysterectomy (J. Zinn, 2012, p.275). Third is class III or contaminated wounds. These are open accidental wounds, a break in sterile technique, or the spillage from a tract such as the GI tract (Mulholland and Doherty, 2006, p.141). Lastly is Class IV or dirty/infected wounds. The wounds are more than four hours old and were more than likely contaminated prior to incision (J. Zinn, 2012, p. 276). Along with classifications of wounds there are types of wound healing.
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Carlton, a 6-year-old boy, was playing on a sandy beach with his mother. He began to run along the shoreline when he stepped on the sharp edge of a shell, giving himself a deep cut on his foot. His mother washed his foot in the lake and put on his running shoe to take him home. One day later, Carlton’s foot looked worse. The gash was red and painful. The foot was warm to touch and appeared swollen. Carlton’s mom put some gauze over the wound and prepared to take him to the local community health clinic.
The trauma-informed care lab was a very impactful experience for me as a student pharmacist and as a person. Prior to the lab, I have always believed that childhood experiences can influence a person’s outcome as an adult. While this belief humanizes those, who have made poor choices in life, it is difficult for me to vindicate every case I see. However, after seeing the statistical facts from the ACE study and especially the movie Healing Neen, I found it easier to show empathy and understanding to those who made those choices.
Many great historical figures of the scientific community have written on the subject of the same perplexing disease over the centuries (Angus, van der Poll, Finfer, Vincent 2013). Sepsis has been given many names, origins, and etiologies. In the 4th century, Hippocrates declared the disease the cause of organic decomposition, wound festering, and swamp gas (Angus et al. 2013). During the 19th century, Louis Pasteur theorized the disease was the outcome of a pathogenic microorganism in the bloodstream, which resulted in a body-wide infection (Angus et al. 2013). In the 21st century, the medical community made a breakthrough with the discovery of the disease’s link to the inflammatory response system and devised a plan of action to combat the high mortality rates among those infected (Angus et al. 2013). According to Hotchkiss, Monneret, & Payen (2013) the effects of sepsis are well documented, while the molecular processes it utilizes are still being explored; however, new studies are helping to expand our understanding of the centuries old disease.
The Beauty Industry being such a wide market of services and products include providing for the care of our skin, hair, selling of perfumes and cosmetics (“What is the Beauty Industry?”2014) and now developing more extensively into basic cosmetic surgery and treatments, now gives society a big opportunity to pamper and nourish themselves in more extensive ways. Throughout this essay, the branches of dermatology and dermal therapies will be explained; common skin disorders and specifically a treatment called ‘Ultrasonic Peeling’ and how it can potentially help with skin disorders imposed today will be explored and described in detail. After the investigation of what Ultrasonic Peeling is and how it works, I will also state my opinion on how well I think the treatment benefits its users, give my evaluation if I would consider using it, what I think the positives and negatives are and in scenario, assess whether it is a treatment that more salons should consider offering.
Maintenance of an appropriate healing environment is also essential throughout the management of diabetic foot ulcers. The choice of dressing is dependent on many factors including presence of infection, amount of exudate and the required frequency of wound bed inspection.
Surgical technologists are members of the surgical team who work in the operating room with surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and other personnel before, during and after surgery. Techs are basically considered the surgeons “right hand man”. They may prepare a patient for surgery by washing, shaving, and disinfecting where the incision may be. They arrange the equipment, instruments, and supplies in the operating room according to the preference of the surgeons and nurses (Ferguson 537). During the operation, they count all equipment used, and hold retractors and cut sutures as directed. Following the operation, they may clean and restock the OR and sterilize the used equipment (Ferguson 538).
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Regeneration is a process that has the ability to regrow a structure that has been damaged/amputated. Regeneration is an important thing the world for animals, humans, and more things that are affected by it. Without regeneration, crabs would suffer because they lose their legs so often, humans would be skinless, especially on their knees because that’s what gets scraped many times, children wouldn’t be able to regrow tips of accidental fingertip amputations back and flatworms would have less of a population because when they lost a head or tail they wouldn’t be able to regrow again. Regeneration doesn’t completely help humans like it does animals, humans won’t grow a head back or legs, but they do benefit a little from regeneration. Many things are affected by regeneration positively.
Reiki is a Japan based healing secret that is rapidly recognized worldwide. In early 1900s, Mikao Usui discovered the surreptitious of reiki while he was isolating himself at Mount Kurama in Japan. Afterwards, the healing art of reiki has been scattered over the world as the reiki practitioners are escalating abruptly. In fact, numerous cultures all over the world believe that there are concealed energy flows through all creatures that are connected to the quality of life ever since ancient times. Reiki utilizes specific technique for rejuvenating and balancing the natural life force energy within the body. Reiki symbols have specific frequency that specialize certain condition to sanction the flow of energy throughout the body. The colour and shape of each symbol signify the frequency and amplitude of the energy. The healing power of reiki can be verified by the existence of first degree of reiki and second degree of reiki as well as enhancing the results of medical therapy.
Nature is the best Medicine. “Just feel the magic in the air and the power in the breeze, feel the energy of the plants, the brushes and the trees, let yourself be surrounded by nature at its best, calm yourself, focus and let the magic do the rest. “ - Sally Walker Many have said that nature is the best medicine for the soul. Have you ever noticed the simple bliss and purity nature holds? Never competing, never degrading, never giving up the purity it holds.
In 1865 before an operation, he cleansed a leg wound first with carbolic acid, and performed the surgery with sterilized (by heat) instruments. The wound healed, and the patient survived. Prior to surgery, the patient would need an amputation. However, by incorporating these antiseptic procedures in all of his surgeries, he decreased postoperative deaths. The use of antiseptics eventually helped reduce bacterial infection not only in surgery but also in childbirth and in the treatment of battle wounds.
Today I was able to watch a vac dressing being placed on a patients wound. I had little knowledge about the vac dressing before going into this situation, it was interesting to see the situation in a real life situation first before doing research on it. There were two doctors in the patients room who were setting up the vac, one of the doctors was very good at explaining what they were doing and explaining how the vacuum dressing works. When they began to remove the old dressing I was surprised at how much packing the wound had. It wasn’t until all of it was removed that I noticed how large the wound actually was. We were able to get a nice view of the wound while the doctors were examining it. As they began to repack the dressing they
Our approach in managing wounds was far from being optimal in our own setting. After having read the article of Sibbald et al (1) and assisting to presentations during the first residential week-end, our approach at St. Mary 's Hospital Center 's Family Medicine Clinic must change. We were not classifying wounds as healable, maintenance or non-healable. We were always considering the wounds in our practice as healable despite considering the system 's restraints or the patients ' preferences. In the following lines, I will define and summarize the methods one should use in order to initial management of wounds and how to integrate it better to our site. The first goal we need to set is to determine its ability to heal. In order to ascertain if a wound is healable, maintenance or a non-healable wound.
The normal wound healing process mainly consists of four main stages being haemostasis, inflammation, proliferation or new tissue formation, and tissue remodeling or resolution. For a wound to heal well the above mentioned stages should occur in a sequential and orderly manner. Disturbances, abnormalities and delays in any of the above stages may lead to impaired healing or even chronic wounds. In adults, this process of normal healing takes place in the following steps (1)rapid haemostasis (2)appropriate inflammation (3)mesenchymal cell differentiation, proliferation, and migration to the wound site (4)suitable angiogenesis (5)prompt re-epithelialization and (6) proper synthesis, cross-linking, and alignment of collagen to provide strength to the healing tissue.
Healing is a long process that requires a person physical, mental and spiritual aspects. As a human being if a person has problem in one part of those aspects, he/she don’t feel well and hard to function well. The environment we live in, plays a big factor on person healing process. If there surrounded by a strong healing environment, a patient can recover faster. A healing environment consist of clean environment, a heathy spiritual life, and a strong support system around a person. When a person obtains a well and strong a healing environment, he will have a better and faster healing process.