After sleeping with my reading light blazing into my eyelids, with three alarms set, I arrived at work nearly two hours late.
After reading solution bottles, like Dakin's and tetrachlorodecaoxide (TCDO), I came home and wrote it down in a Moleskine notebook...for later digestion.
After noticing that central venous catheters look just like straight arrow fletchings, I have started on a modern day, medical Temptation of Saint Sebastian among involutions of spring flowers. I will finish it in a couple days. I especially like the juxtaposition I am suggesting of the revivifying powers of human intervention/interference, which often expresses itself in puncturing the body full of holes (to receive the therapy), which are not mortal wounds, anyway. Sometimes I am amazed by the extent to which someone will suffer to stay alive, without question. How admitting oneself to the care of others manifests itself so completely...While I do not judge others who "capitulate" in this way, I will never be so passive.
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We stopped at a rest stop at Eden, North Carolina, and entering the on ramp, we saw a green umbrella twirling at the edge. A man, Michael, lying on the embankment since last night was found with a comminuted leg fracture and internal bleeding. His vehicle had flipped over a guard rail. We gave him water and called the paramedics. He talked to his wife, and was transferred to Roanoke Memorial, the nearest Level 1 trauma hospital, which isn't on diversion.
"TCDO is an aqueous solution that moistens the wound. It contains bio-activated oxygen carrier. It breaks the vicious cycle of hypoxia in a wound. It contributes to meeting the increased oxygen demand involved in phagocytic activation adequately, without compromising the physiological degree of local hypoxia required for neo-angiogenesis [6]. The bactericidal action of TCDO has been demonstrated in vitro. In addition, TCDO also has mitogenic properties on fibroblasts and new blood vessels required for effective wound healing. Haem-activated decomposition of TCDO does not give rise to any toxic metabolite [8]."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040840/
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