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[arnak]

How sweet is this: http://www-nmcp.med.navy.mil/nursing/procman/LeechTherapyJul01.doc

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[goozballoon]

This still do this?!!!

[arnak]

Haha, what they're doing here is actually for very specific and actually rather innovative purpose. When a patient suffers a severe avulsion (a portion of flesh is mostly torn off but remains attached by a flap), certain lacerations, amputations (like an ear or finger) or a hematoma (a clot/build up of blood or fluid in flesh) it is usually relatively easy to get adequate arterial blood flow back to the affected area due to the hydrostatic pressure and capillary permeability in the surrounding healthy tissue, though it is still difficult to gain full perfusion (blood flow) in the entire affected area. What's difficult is gaining and maintaining sufficient venous drainage in the damaged tissue, as the veins tend to be either severely damaged or clotted. How the leech therapy affects this is four fold. First, it helps to draw fresh blood to the affected area, both through what it physically sucks out and through what oozes out of the leech wound after the leech has been removed. This ensures that the area will get the blood and

[goozballoon]

That's really cool. Also I meant to say "They".