Non-healing wounds may signal gangrene, a severe condition caused by tissue death due to poor oxygen and blood flow. Early ...

Through the course of the war, physicians had to learn how to judge the severity of the wound, recognize the potential for serious infection, and decide on the best course of treatment ...

Oil-based substances, such as petroleum jelly, appear to disrupt this important process, and might increase the risk of wound infection, they say in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Gangrene can be either dry or wet ... oxygen therapy (HBOT), a therapy that involves healing of diabetic wounds with supply of oxygen to dead tissues, in India. Although the doctor had to amputate ...

Through the course of the war, physicians had to learn how to judge the severity of the wound, recognize the potential for serious infection, and decide on the best course of treatment ...