SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - As EMS Week comes to a close, the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office is teaching young people how to be prepared...because sometimes, you only have seconds. “Well today we’re ...
Nurses must be able to assess tissue condition, wound size, and signs of infection, and choose and apply various dressings, while also managing pain and preventing complications. Gain these skills and ...
A university student has designed a device that can rapidly stop catastrophic blood loss from stab wounds. The device uses pressure to prevent bleeding, targeting areas that are usually difficult to ...
The Packable Wound Trainer is a ruggedized task trainer with a simulated hemostatic wound. The PWT is composed of lifelike synthetic skin and includes a hemostatic wound providing trainees with the ...
Contact layer dressings are single layer, either woven or nonwoven materials designed to protect fragile tissue in the wound bed. They can be perforated or permeable, allowing exudates to pass through ...
I am going to be frank with you. When it comes to packing an abscess, I absolutely hate it. There is something so barbaric to the idea of shoving a foreign object into someone and telling them to come ...