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Radiation-Induced Cutaneous Damage - Treatment, Prevention ...

Rule out malignancy: when treating a non-healing wound due in an irradiated ... injury in breast cancer. This was based on a single RCT [34] that found ...

Soft Tissue Radiation Necrosis

Plan. "For preventing wound healing complications in heavily irradiated tissue areas, we treat patients with 20 hyperbaric oxygen treatments at ...

An Introduction to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

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Pyogenic and Invasive Fungal Intracranial Abscesses

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for treatment of pyogenic and invasive fungal intracranial abscesses, evidence-based protocol, sample physician order template.

Osteoradionecrosis - Mandibular

"For preventing wound healing complications in heavily irradiated tissue areas, in the face of established osteoradionecrosis of the mandible, we treat ...

Acute Burns - Treatment

See local wound care for superficial, superficial partial-thickness, deep partial-thickness and full-thickness burns in 'Local Interventions' in this topic.

Acute Exceptional Blood Loss Anemia

In 1959, Dutch surgeon Boerema studied hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) for treating anemia.[3] He drained blood from healthy piglets and replaced it with a ...

Arterial Ulcer - Introduction and Assessment

... See topic "Arterial Ulcer - Treatment"

Venous ulcers - Introduction and Assessment

See topic "How to Collect a Wound Swab (Levine Technique) for Culture". Wound biopsy is indicated in VLUs that fail standard therapy after 4 weeks of treatment ...

How to Assess a Patient with Chronic Wounds

Cachexia: risk factor for pressure ulcer/injury [12]; History of cancer; Immunosuppression: may delay wound healing and increase susceptibility to infection.

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