BANANA AND WOUND HEALING

Wound management is one of the cornerstones for nursing care however, effective wound care extends far beyond the application of the wound itself. Nurses may be required to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate wound care; therefore, order to fill these roles it’s critical to have an understanding of the several different areas of wound care such as, integumentary system, classification of wounds, wound procedures, and documentation. Knowledge in each of these areas will allow nurses to make well informed decisions about wound care, and as a result play an active part in wound healing.

Tammy, I would agree there is a major difference between knowing how to perform a specific skill and knowing how to perform that skill effectively. I think it is great that you offer new nurses to your department an extensive orientation and training. Wound vac care can be tedious, depending on the wound, requiring much training and then follow-up training to ensure it is being performed correctly. The surrounding skin appearance of a wound bed is a good indicator of correct wound vac application. Your expertise in wound care with precise skin barrier methods prevented further complications with this already painful wound. When patients get, frustrated or are having a lot of pain related to a treatment or procedure, many times they will refuse

Write one-paragraph responses to 4 of the following 6 questions below. Each paragraph should be 5 to 10 sentences (or about 70 – 150 words), and written in your own words.

This paper will be a research critique on the article “Frequent Application of the New Gelatin-Collagen Nonwoven Accelerates Wound Healing”, by Schiefer, J.L. and Rath, R, and each section will be examined using our textbook “Understanding Evidence-Based Practice”. The article’s main focus was on determining the effect of healing when using multiple collagen nonwoven applications to chronic wounds. Twelve mini-pigs where used to test this technique and the findings indicated that this method was promising, because the wounds had a faster healing rate when multiple application of gelatin-collagen nonwoven was used as treatment. Analyzing the articles components, we can see that although it does contain preliminary

In light of how incredible our body is to be able to regenerate quickly for most, that is not what happens for others. Many diseases or large body wounds can take years to make it through one stage. Some may not ever heal. Wounds such as diabetic, venous stasis, ischemic, or pressure ulcers have a lack of blood flow making it almost impossible for them to heal naturally (Cutroneo, 2008). Large area burn victims also fall into this category. Their body is trying to compensate for fluid loss and maintain homeostasis, but wound healing ends up being very difficult to do on their own (Jacobsen, 2005). Many attempts are used to heal these including gene therapy, hydrotherapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and topical antibiotics to just name a few. There are many courses of therapy to heal these wounds, and some work better than others depending on the wound and person.

Posthauer, Mary Ellen, RD, LD, CD. (2012) Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting, Volume 23, Number 1.

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Wound closure was determined as a decline in the wound area over study time period and also efficiently examined under in vivo conditions via quantitative measurement of skin wound area at specified time intervals in acute and streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic mice models (Sharpe et al., 2013). Experimental data set indicating original wound morphology and how the wound size reduced over time in NCs treated swiss albino mice as compared to their respective controls at day 3, 8 and 14 post-wounding (acute) and at day 3, 10, and 18 post-wounding (diabetic) has been presented in Fig. 6.13

Chen and Dragoo (2013) argue that minimal information exists concerning the administration of NSAIDs after injury and surgery. They point out that tissue healing needs many physiological routes. The authors restate that injuries like high tibial osteotomies and bone-tendon-bone anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction necessitate bone-union, whereas rotator cuff repairs, and labral repairs, and hamstring ACL surgeries rely on soft tissue-to-bone therapy. The authors pointed out that soft tissue healing is needed for extensive injuries like MCL tears and subsequent meniscal and Achilles tendon reconstructions (Chen & Dragoo, 2013). The administration of NSAIDs in orthopedic operation is contentious and a topic of ongoing

Since sea grapes are rich in iodine, it can be an antiseptic for wounds. Although using iodine as an antiseptic is full of controversy, it is still considered to reduce the bacteria in wounds. In some instances, iodine did not have any effect on wound healing but some studies have shown that the effect of iodine is not lower to other antiseptic agents and does not worsen wound healing.

“The process by which tissue repair takes place is termed wound healing and is comprised of a continuous sequence of inflammation and repair, in which epithelial, endothelial, inflammatory cells, platelets and fibroblasts briefly come together outside their normal domains, interact to restore a semblance of their usual discipline and having done so resume their normal function”. ("The Cellular Biology of Wound Healing" 2016)

The banana (Musa spp.) is a large perennial herb with leaf sheaths that form their pseudostems, meaning they are rather giant herbs than trees. Both the plantain and banana are sterile and parthenocarpic so the fruit is seedless. The plant is made up of 8-12 leaves that are about 9ft tall and 2ft wide (Chia and Huggins, 1992). Bananas are considered the

12. Drinking alcohol causes delay or poor wound healing, as it reduces the ability of the bone marrow to iron to make haemoglobin and it may be reasons in some forms of anaemia (McCulloch and Kloth, 2001). McCulloch and Kloth (2010) indicated that platelets are vital for wound healing, causing blood to clot to prevent continues bleeding, for the time being, it would be suggested that Doris should avoid alcohol until the wound heals.

Purgative medicines are cheap in cost but children dislike the taste because of its bitterness. The researchers came up with this project due to the desire of helping the parents of infected children in convincing their kids to take good-tasting purgative remedy that is cheaper in cost and can be done at home. The researchers found out that pounded and boiled akapulko seeds are used as an effective purgative agent.  Akapulko is an herbal plant that can be used in curing skin, stomach, lung, and mouth problems, and is well known for its sudorific, diuretic and purgative characteristics. It can be ingested without having any side effect or contraindications. The researchers thought of pulvoron, being a healthy, delicious, and attractive treat for all. The akapulko seeds were consider as extender in place of the traditional rice crisps, nuts, or nougats in the pulvoron. Established that akapulvoron could be an effective and safe purgative treat, the researchers intended to conduct a sensory analysis of the product to determine if it would be generally accepted by the public.

The market size for tropical fruit is really large, bananas being the fifth most important agricultural commodity in world trade after cereals, sugar, coffee and cocoa. Six countries (India, Brazil, Ecuador, Philippines, China and Indonesia) account for 55% of total world production. Bananas and pineapples are common fruits, on average 10 kg of bananas are consumed by each of the 350 million EU citizens; therefore it is not really