Tetanus, wounds and the wildernessby
Dr. Erik McLaughlin
; especially puncturewounds (rusty nails), burns or crushing injuries.
Tetanus is diagnosed mainly on the symptoms... is advised every ten years, even if you haven’t had any rusty nails, cuts or dirty wounds. Remember...
Puncturing The Lumbar Spineby
sawling
doctors carrying out lumbar punctures (taking some fluid out from the spinal cord for investigations... afterall.
Can't stop smiling from ear to ear....why?
COZ I've done a lumbar puncture successfully...
REVIEW - Procedures - Lumbar Puncture by MeisterMedby
Alan T.
, but not without some caveats.
Lumbar puncture is a standalone app which cuts straight to the chase... surprised to find Procedures - Lumbar Puncture in the app store. As someone who routinely...
Cuts, cuts and more cutsby
Garth M.
services are cut, while patients suffer as PCTs restrict access to essential operations and medicines... the limping old lady with a painful hip is not guaranteed a reasonably speedy operation?
Cuts to local...
Cut costs, cut costs, cut costs. ...by
Drew W.Cut costs, cut costs, cut costs. That’s what we have been hearing lately (30 + years?) in order to effectively reform health care.
The problem is those costs are someone’s income. In a free market economy...
Burny Burny CutCutby
Monica O.
, after a mid-run bathroom break I put it back on a little to quickly and ended up with a huge burn/cut...
Cut back on artificial sweeteners and processed foods. I think all the diet drinks and processed...
Cutting: The Quiet Epidemicby
Dr. Deb
-Injurious Behaviors (SIB). Other forms of SIB include burning, skin-picking, wound-picking, skin puncturing... in haphazard slashes, revealing a fury in the strokes. Cuttingwounds can present in a rippled manner...
To CUT or NOT to CUTby
Romelette L.
there is no connection between my hair growth and the weather but with the idea of cutting it short there is. Speaking... it by cutting may hair short, I sport a boy cut. From there my hair stop falling and started growing. After that...
Symptoms
... jury', where one person punches another person in the teeth and cuts their hand. Typical symptoms include small cuts to the hand ... » Read on
MD exposed
Dr Frascino,We have spoken before. I had a puncturewound with an AIDS patient. At 6 weeks I got symptoms, and the clinic gave me an ELISA and viral load those 2 were neg.. At 9 weeks I got another negative test and at 11 and a half weeks I used a homeaccess kit which was negative. How does this look...crap
Thank you
, and for answering the same question (re: small puncturewounds China) you have answered so many times... some sort of puncture, I would say (though very small- a hairs breadth). My hopes lie in it not... on your reasoning for saying worry is unwarranted is due to this apparent puncture not...crap
Could you have an infection that doesn't show up on a culture because you are taking a lot of antib
My foot Puncturewound looked and acted infected, yet the tissue /blood cultures were negative... line and Vancomycin. I did the IV drip by myself 2x daily for 10 days.
Could the wound have been infected despite the negative culture? I did have high monocytes, Eos, Baso%, etc. The wound healed...crap
Puncturewound to foot
Hi, I got a puncturewound in the bottom in step of my foot in the shower from a plastic sharp shampoo cap. It bled a lot and the next day I could hardly walk on it. It seemed to then get better but now it is 2months later and I still have pain in my foot and a bump. Should I see a pediatrist...crap
Use of Lidocane jelly 2%/ injections in puncturewound
A cordless drill fell onto my bare foot causing a puncturewound from the screw bit, spurting blood and a large hematoma. It scabbed over with blood clots inside the drained hematoma... so used lidocaine jelly squirted into the puncturewound prior to my weekend irrigation/packing treatments...crap
how to get them
can you get hiv or hbv from a puncturewounds, skin contact,and mucous membrane contact Barbara McGovern, M.D. how to get them Acquiring HIV or HBV infection usually requires blood to blood contact with an infectious source. There are rare cases of a health care worker being infected from a mucous membrane...crap
My ICD sugery was complicated but thank god I'm still here. Seeking possible answers.
My ICD surgery entailed complications resulting in my being one of the few to receive a punctured heart and cardiogenic shock? I think thats what I suffered. After all of this, I awoke twice while intubated and felt like I was drowning in my own fluids. The tubes were aggravating my gag reflexes...crap
Acupuncture needle stick-should I be tested?
I stepped on a needle in my acupuncturist's office and it punctured my toe enough to draw a tiny drop of blood. I was the first patient in the room for 40+ hours, so the needle was at least that old. Should I be tested for HIV or Hep? Barbara McGovern, M.D. Acupuncture needle stick-should I be tested...crap
Carissimo Dottor Roberto
Dr Bob, can you please answer this for me? If an Hiv+ person sits on a chair and gets punctured by a staple protruding from the chair causing him to bleed and i sit on that same chair 5 minutes later and get punctured by the same staple or pin or whatever, am I at any risk of becoming infected? Am I pazzo to worry...crap
dr ryan a non sexual tranmission............plzzz help ACCIDENTAL NEEDLE INJURY
HI DOC I HAD A COLLISION WITH A WARD BOY IN THE HOSPITAL,THE NEEDLE,USED ONE,PUNCTURED... as of June 2000. Factors that might increase the risk of transmission are: depth of the puncture, size and type of needle (hollow-bore needles pose a greater risk), where the puncture occurs (vein and artery punctures...crap