The design that I have chosen for my Design & Technology task is ReCell, spray-on skin. I have chosen this design because I believe that it is one of the most innovative inventions to come from Australia.
ReCell is a patented skin culturing treatment for burns victims, developed by Dr Fiona Wood and scientist Marie Stoner. The procedure focuses on accelerating the treatment of burns on patients to only 5 days of a recovering process. Wood’s treatment is currently undergoing development but is registered under the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) in Australia. I believe that Recell spray-on skin is ethical because it greatly reduces the time of healing after burn treatments and if the wound is responded to quickly, the healed wounds can have little to no scarring. ReCell is also environmentally friendly due to the fact that it promotes the idea of recycling through regenerating skin cells grown in a laboratory to then spray onto the affected wound. This design has been a commercial success
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She trained in plastic surgery and became Head of the Royal Perth Hospital Burns Unit. Wood gained media recognition in 2002 when 28 victims of the Bali Bombings were sent to Perth to receive treatment for their burns. She had developed the spray-on skin earlier, which greatly reduced the permanence of scarring of the skin in burns victims. Wood utilised her method in 1993 and later co-founded a company with scientist Marie Stoner, to promote spray-on skin internationally. Royalties from the product are used to fund further research into burns treatment through the McComb Foundation, which pursues Wood’s goal of a treatment that promotes ‘scarless, woundless healing’. Dr Wood is a Clinical Professor with the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and Director of the Western Australia Burns Service. She was also Australian of the Year in
Professor Fiona Wood AM is the 2005 Australian of the year but as well as that she is a burns surgeon and researcher for 20 years and is the Director of the burns Service of Western Australia, Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Royal Perth Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Co-founder of the first skin cell laboratory in WA, Winthrop Professor in the School of Surgery at The University of Western Australia, and Cofounder and Chair, of the Fiona Wood Foundation (formerly The McComb Foundation). In 2002 she invented spray-one-skin for the Bali bombing
The Healthy Skin Project was initiated as a result of increasing cost for the treatment and diagnosis of pressure ulcers. The number of patients needing hospitalization and health care for this condition was rising by a large and alarming rate. Another need for this study came into play as a health care priority when in 2008 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services stopped honoring payment for many types of hospital- acquired conditions, one being pressure ulcers.
T.N. will learn more about the nature of his injury and the importance of continued burn care until complete healing takes place by applying the
Participant/s: 61 participants were involved in the study. Each treated at a major regional medical burn centre experiencing a TBSA burned average of 13.95%. The participants were mainly men (83.1%) averaged to 36.86 years of age. Therefore, the participants were hospitalized individuals for severe burns and fitting the written criteria outlined in the study.
‘As a wound advances through the stages of healing so should the materials used, National institute for health care excellence 2016’ Advanced wound dressings such as hydrocolloids, hydrogels, silicone dressings and foams are more expensive than traditional dressings. My plan is to make advanced wound care products and dressings more easily assessable, through government funding ensuring products are more affordable for patients.
The primary cause of death is due to secondary infection, such as, pulmonary sepsis. According to eMedicine, deaths from burn injuries have significantly decreased. “During the past two decades, deaths from burn injuries have decreased” The improvement of emergency medical services and firefighting techniques contributes to this decrease in mortality. Other contributing factors for reduction in mortality also include the development of topical and systemic antimicrobial agents, recognition of the importance of proper nutrition, and adoption of early wound excision and grafting techniques. The use of smoke detectors has helped reduce the severity of burn injuries. Educational programs provided to inform homeowners to
According to the John Hopkins Medicine website, “Burns are a type of painful wound caused by thermal, electrical, chemical, or electromagnetic energy” (“Burns”). The skin is the largest organ in the human body and its primary function is protection. It is made up of two primary layers which are the epidermis and dermis. The epidermis is the superficial layer, thin, and is made of five different layers The dermis is the deep layer that is thick and it is made up of two different layers. When someone’s skin is burned these layers of skin can be destroyed.
The normal skin thickness of the breast has been described as generally less than 1.5 mm. Unilateral edema may be caused by impairment of lymph drainage, axillary lymphatic obstruction by metastasis, and inflammatory carcinoma. Where, bilateral edema suggests a systemic pathology, such as congestive heart failure or renal failure Fig (4.15).Other image modalities, such as ultrasound and MRI, are particularly helpful in the diagnosis of unilateral edema. These may identify an underlying mass in the patients with inflammatory carcinoma as the edema may obscure the mass on mammography (Evans et al., 2004).
Severe burns are among of the most painful and traumatic injuries treated by modern day medicine (6). This is due to both extensive physiological damage of the injuries and psychological damage which accompany them (4). Pharmacological solutions provide the foundation of pain-control strategies for patients with burn injuries. Pain medications usually work well for controlling resting pain. However, patients typically have their bandages changed and their wounds cleaned, disinfected, and monitored on a daily basis. Wound-care sessions often include debridement of necrotic skin. Despite aggressive use of pain medication most patients being treated for severe burns report severe to excruciating pain during wound care (4). The ability to mitigate this pain can be vital in patient’s recovery both physiologically and psychologically (anxiety).
Bearing in mind that wounds can be anything from a minor laceration, a disease process complication, to severe trauma, not all wounds are created equal. However, most of the time, the wound protocol is generic, grouping all of the mentioned wounds together. Research has been done on effective education for the patient and caregiver, what type of cleanser to use and when, who to consult and why, when to follow up, where to conduct wound care, and the emphasis on standardization. Yet no one has set forth guidelines to cover all types of wounded patients, regardless of underlying conditions.
The research I conducted on the subject of early skin to skin care between mother and infant states overwhelmingly that whether or not the mother is breastfeeding, early skin to skin contact has numerous benefits. The fact that this evidence based practice is not implemented for the families admitted to a facility is very concerning, however, as a nurse I’m able to understand how this practice could be shunned by staff regardless of the many benefits for mother and neonate. Time constraints, lack of training, and education, coupled with nursing shortages are the reasons that pop out to me for not implementing this time sensitive care for the patients on a birthing unit.
Burn injury is a traumatic injury which can cause morbidity and death. The effects of burns is handicap the victim leaving psychological trauma and (Yao et al., 2011). Severe burn affects the patient's physique, psyche, financial situation with socio-cultural dynamics of the family. Patients with severe burn may die, and for those with lesser injury, physical recovery is slow and painful as well (Shrivastava and Shrivastava, 2012).
There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding discussions of anti-aging treatment. If you are interested in finding the best anti-aging skin creams for you, it is worthwhile to consider some of the aspects of what anti-aging means in this context, and how you can best affect a difference in your long-term health.
In the present situation, individuals are judged by their abilities and learning as well as it is their identity and appearance which assumes a key part in leaving a decent impact on others. In this way, on the off chance that you wish to get perceived in a horde of individuals, it is fundamental that you look respectable and engaging. Diverse people have distinctive skin sorts and tones and it is redundant that every one of them are reasonable but rather they have to find a way to improve their looks and general identity. Be that as it may, now it is conceivable to get your sought look as a few stylish medications are accessible in the business sector. In the event that you imagine that any of such medications can help you in
To develop strategies and practice improvements that support positive patient outcomes related to wound management and skin integrity