Perineal injuries have been neglected and deprioritised, at the expense of women’s health and wellbeing, write Kathrine ...

Traumatic aniridia is a rare but serious complication of trauma. This case report presents a woman in her 70s who developed ...

Obstetric tears after vaginal delivery affect millions of women globally every year. Research on prevention and management of healing-related complications is lacking, particularly the role of ...

Objective To evaluate the effect of prophylactic antibiotics on the risk of wound complications after episiotomy or second degree tear. Setting One university hospital in the Capital Region of Denmark ...

Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN), the global medical technology company, today announces findings from a newly published, first-of-its-kind comparative study of single-use negative pressure wound ...

Among patients who underwent laparotomy, the risk for surgical site infection and wound dehiscence was significantly reduced with staples plus incisional negative pressure wound therapy vs staples ...

During a skin biopsy, your dermatologist removes a small sample of skin. If you’ve just had a skin biopsy, proper aftercare is essential. Caring for your wound can prevent infection and other ...

The Wound Center and Hyperbarics teams at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo and Amory have been honored with two national awards from Healogics®, the nation’s largest provider of wound care ...

In conclusion, both the VAMC and Rotterdam score indices can be used to predict the development of abdominal wound dehiscence. The VAMC prognostic score had better calibration and discriminative power ...

Table 2. VAMC score variables and characteristics of the validation population Variables of the VAMC score Abdominal wound dehiscence [n = 56] No abdominal wound dehiscence [n = 168] P value ...