Listen "Unintentional Institutional Abuse and Maggots"
Episode Synopsis
Alternating pressure air mattresses Maggots "In the 21st century, eighty years after William Baer presented his ground-breaking work treating bone and soft tissue infections with live maggots, thousands of therapists around the globe have rediscovered the benefits of maggot therapy" (Sherman, 2009). For many years now Lucilia sericata, and other, maggots have been used in pressure ulcers. LINKS Cairwave and Nodec A mattresses Sherman, R. A (2009). Maggot Therapy Takes Us Back to the Future of Wound Care: New and Improved Maggot Therapy for the 21st Century. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 3(2), 336-344.
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