The history of wound care spans from prehistory to modern medicine. Wounds naturally heal by themselves, but hunter-gatherers would have noticed several...

arterial disease, infection, and metabolic deficiencies of old age. Wound care encourages and speeds wound healing via cleaning and protection from reinjury...

A dressing or compress is piece of material such as a pad applied to a wound to promote healing and protect the wound from further harm. A dressing is...

A wound is any disruption of or damage to living tissue, such as skin, mucous membranes, or organs. Wounds can either be the sudden result of direct trauma...

organ damage, wound infection, loss of the ability to move part of the body, and in severe cases, death. Damage depends on the part of the body hit, the...

2017. Shah JB (September 2011). "The history of wound care". The Journal of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists. 3 (3): 65–6. doi:10.1016/j...

2017. Shah JB (September 2011). "The history of wound care". The Journal of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists. 3 (3): 65–66. doi:10.1016/j...

by men and persons of ethnic minorities. Some of the first principles of wound care come from Hippocrates who promoted keeping wounds dry except for irrigation...

Health Care is a Swedish medical device company headquartered in Gothenburg and active internationally. The company manufactures and sells wound care and...

(February 2018). "Review of the Current Management of Pressure Ulcers". Advances in Wound Care. 7 (2): 57–67. doi:10.1089/wound.2016.0697. PMC 5792240....