Thursday, October 8, 2009

Nuggets for October 8

Goodies too good to pass up...some I see every day and some I just see and pass along to you! Enjoy!

Cool toy

Since some of my grad work is on tools to do a better job in healthcare, we'll have lots of talk in class tonight about Microsoft's H1N1 assessment tool, created with a little help from their friends at the Emory School of Medicine.

Other toys in the medical world

We're always fixing up lots and lots of people with sores of all sorts. Wound clinics can have lots and lots of sores--diabetic sores, pressure sores, and good old generic trauma.

How do you fix them up?

Sometimes we use radio therapy devices. Or we may use a combination of things, such as WoundVACs and hydrotherapy, as noted on this page. If we can get access, we might use hyperbaric treatments, but due to cost, this is rare.

And if all of this stuff doesn't work, there are folks working on a mathematical model for wound healing.

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