Medical Science

Blood transfusion is a life saving procedure in many instances and in other instances it is considered vital to manage a patents good health. Although there are several risks involved in receiving blood, possibilities are much less with modern day…
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Artificial skin (tissue-engineered skin’ or ‘cultured skin graft’) allows severely damaged skin, related to burns or inherited diseases and open wounds, ability to grow new tissue, and heal faster. According to the Food and Drug Administration (2001), more than one…
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Foley Catheter Insertion: Sterile Technique for the Medical Professional Before you start: Before you insert a Foley catheter there are a few things you need to consider: *Do you have a Dr.’s order to do so? *Do you have a…
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Self-preservation is my reason for not rushing out to donate a kidney. I place family members and myself before strangers for such a gift. I know that sounds cold, but I do not believe it is uncommon. Donating an organ…
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A hyperbaric chamber is a device whose primary objective and usage is to supply a patient with pure oxygen-rich air. Hyperbaric chambers are also designed to generate and maintain a proper environment for human occupancy. There are various factors that…
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When people speak about this subject, they are immediately reminded of Hitler’s “Supreme Race” which caused the death of hundreds of thousands. It is understandable, the negative connotation that goes along with this, however, it is hardly fair. Some people…
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Life’s big surprise’s. What you are about to read happened to me on Oct.10th,2004, 2 months before I was to get married. Imagine gong to bed one night and waking up 21 days later. That’s what happened to me. I…
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First let me say, I am not a surgeon. However, I am a nationally certified surgical first assistant with approximately 30 years of surgical experience and I work directly with a group of Spine specialist in a fast paced outpatient…
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Would you have ever thought wound-care clinics around the country would be using maggots on some patients after high-tech treatments fail? Can you imagine using these wriggly little creatures for treating wounds? Maggots are making a medical comeback, cleaning out…
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Victorian ideas that prehistoric humans were unthinking brutes still pervade many people’s thinking. Just because prehistoric humans could not read or write, it does not mean that they were not cultured. Prehistoric societies certainly had culture and medicine. Prehistoric medicine…
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