physicians had to learn how to judge the severity of the wound, recognize the potential for serious infection, and decide on the best course of treatment, which often included amputation.

It was soon recognized that primary amputation saved lives. Waiting to operate often resulted in a horribly infected wound. Clean white pus was expected in a normal healing wound; four deadly ...

Those sorts of wounds significantly increase a person's risk of amputation and death. "Our goal here was to develop a far ...

The federal Food and Drug Administration has cleared five applications of its use so far, the most recent coming this month for "full thickness" wounds so severe that they sometimes result in ...

The primary goal in ulcer management is healing the wound as soon as possible. Immediate intervention significantly reduces the risk for infection and need for hospitalization and possible amputation.

Wounds were closed primarily or by delayed ... perfusion were further evaluated by a vascular surgeon prior to the amputation. When indicated, surgical or endoluminal revascularization was ...

YOU BECOME VULNERABLE TO VARIOUS COMPLICATIONS, AND PROBABLY THE MOST DREADED COMPLICATION YOU CAN GET IS YOU CAN GET A SMALL WOUND ... ROOM DOING NOTHING BUT AMPUTATIONS. THIS CONDITION, WHERE ...

A new wound care center is open in downtown Greenwood. Wound Management Specialists officially opened the Greenwood Wound ...