BACKGROUND: Management of intestinal fistulae in open abdominal wounds remains a significant clinical challenge for those caring for patients surviving damage control abdominal operations.

Then 20 years old and pregnant for the first time, she suffered a childbirth injury called an obstetric fistula, caused by prolonged labor without access to a C-section to end it. This left her ...

She’s been using a wound vacuum to keep the puncture clean. “Turns out I had a little cavity deeper than the wound tract that was filled with old hematoma and wasn’t properly draining with wound vac ...

Authorities said the victims were found dead upon arrival and that they all appeared to have suffered fatal gunshot wounds, according to ABC News in Providence. A medical examiner was on the scene ...