Wound Care Presentation

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Hey everyone,

For my anatomy and physiology class I have to do a presentation.

I brought up the idea of wound care to my professor and she said I could compare two medicines.

I was trying to research two possible medicines used to treat the same thing maybe? I was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of wound care or any treatments they could suggest for me.

Thanks in advance!!

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

How about a comparrison between something like maggot therapy and traditional dressings

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deffinately didnt even think of that! and we did talk about that in our lectures..I have to also present studies done so I will see what I can find..thanks a bunch!

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

There's loads of literature about maggot therapy out there and I am fairly sure there are some good quality comparrative studies. Let me do a bit of digging around in work and I'll see if I can find the references.

(may take a while though they would be in my "hardly every use so chuck it in the bottom" drawer)

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ive been searching the internet to try and find studies i found a good amount of information but my teacher wants studies..i tried searching our library catalog .. i would truely appericate it if you found anything

thanx again it means a lot to me =)

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

Diabetic wounds and maggots

Systematic review

Maggot therapy without maggots

Dinman, S. Medical maggots. Plastic Surgical Nursing. 2007 Oct/Dec. 27(4). pp. 212-4

Lodge, A. Jones, M. Thomas, S. Maggots 'n' chips: a novel approach to the treatment of diabetic ulcers. Br J Community Nursing. 2006 Dec. 11(12). pp. S23-S26 supplement.

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Edwards, J. Larval therapy in full thickness burns. J Community Nursing. 2006 Oct. 20(10). pp. 33-8.

James, C. Use of sterile maggots in an unusual trauma injury. Br J Nursing. 2007 22 Mar. 16(6). pp. S30-S31 supplement.

Courtenay, M. Larval therapy in the management of wounds: clinical update. Br J Community Nursing. 1999 Jun. 4(6). pp. 290-

Try these for a start, it's also worth searching your nurisng library for maggot therapy / maggot dressings

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you should try a search under the correct term...biosurgical debridement...:nurse:

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