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!!

Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

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

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!

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)

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 =)

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

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

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