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In case of injury, engineered bandages with embedded antimicrobial nanoparticles will stop deep bleeding in a matter of minutes and keep the wound free from infection.
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Sepsis usually starts out as an infection in just one part of the body, such as a skin wound or a urinary tract infection, Tracey says.
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After a week, he was moved to the Army hospital in Germany, where doctors kept the wound open to avoid infection.
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Both types of bacteria can live harmlessly on your skin until they enter through a cut or other wound and cause an infection.
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Hamish Laing, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and consultant plastic surgeon at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, said it was a novel idea to make artificial skin that would not only cover the wound but actively fight infection.
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Complications are rare, but can include wound-healing difficulties, infection and lack of bone healing.
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If you have psoriasis, however, the T cells attack healthy skin cells by mistake, as if to heal a wound or to fight an infection.
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Christian lived his life on dialysis, and when his family had to evacuate their Louisiana home because of Hurricane Katrina, he wound up with a terrible infection that made dialysis harder.
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Aimee Copeland's case was much more uncommon, in that her wound got "infected and the infection (ran) wild, " explained Creech.
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He was scared to wash the wound that ran from chest to navel, an infection risk.
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In one case, a patient got an infection when he resused compresses on a surgical wound.
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You put a band-aid on a wound only to find out it was dirty and caused an infection elsewhere.
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