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Cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery) is a medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it. It destroys some tissue in an attempt to mitigate bleeding and damage, remove an undesired growth, or minimize other potential medical harm, such as infections when antibiotics are unavailable.
Typical caustic pencil with detail of dried, oxidized, and inactive chemical. A caustic pencil (or silver nitrate stick) is a device for applying topical medication containing silver nitrate and potassium nitrate, used to chemically cauterize skin, providing hemostasis or permanently destroying unwanted tissue such as a wart, skin tag, aphthous ulcers, or over-production of granulation tissue. [1]
Cauterization is meant only to staunch bleeding, particularly in the instance of amputation. Please, please do NOT pour ANYTHING flammable into a wound and light it for any reason. If you have a severely bleeding wound and feel competent to cauterize it yourself, build a fire, heat a piece of metal and cauterize locally (think of a soldering iron).
How to treat it: Similar to avocado hand, treatment for a watermelon wound begins with applying pressure to the area, followed by cleaning the wound, applying an antiseptic and bandaging, says Whyte.
Attached is a power cord (right) and foot on/off switch (left). Held in the hand to show scale is a "hand-piece" detachable sharp-pointed unipolar application electrode. A hyfrecator is a low-powered medical apparatus used in electrosurgery on conscious patients, usually in an office setting.
There are different types of acquired hand deformities, each with distinct characteristics and underlying causes, such as boutonnière deformity, Dupuytren's contracture, gamekeeper's thumb, hand osteoarthritis deformity, mallet finger, swan-neck deformity, ulnar claw hand, among many others.
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