Team Members: AJ Johnson, Karishma Malhotra
Cohen, Elizabeth. 2010. “What to do When Body Parts Fall Off.” CNN News, September 16.
The Author of this popular article is Elizabeth Cohen, CNN’s Senior Medical Correspondent. Cohen is the lead reporter for CNN’s Health, Medical, and Wellness Unit. In addition to numerous articles, Cohen is also the author of several novels regarding medical advancements. This article touches upon the procedures one should follow in case of a freak-accident that led to a severed part of the body. Cohen ranges from fingers and toes to teeth and eyeballs. The main point of the article, which connects to our innovation, is that a severed finger or toe must never touch ice; it should be properly treated in order to stay intact and be capable of being reattached to the human body. This article will help us express both procedures that should and should not be done in the event of a freak-accident.
Partlin, MM, J. Chen, and A. Holdgate. 2008. “The preoperative preservation of amputated digits: an assessment of proposed methods.” The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 65:127-131. DOI:10.1097/TA.0b013e31817c556a.
The authors of this journal all work in the emergency department at Liverpool Hospital in New South Wales, Australia. This journal is very unique because it provides results from an experiment in which different temperatures and time intervals are used in testing fresh chicken feet. The goal was to prove what temperature, time, and gauze enabled most tissue to be preserved. The authors provided many different values, which show positive and negative results. I believe that this journal can prove to be useful for our innovation because it can help us decide the applicable temperatures we want our device to range from.
Abzug, Joshua M., and Scott H. Kozin. 2014. “Pediatric Replantation.” The Journal of Hand Surgery. 39:143-145. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhsa.2013.09.002
The authors of this journal work in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The study focuses on traumatic amputation that happens to children. A very useful aspect of this journal is that it has vivid images, which may be beneficial to our research and understanding of the innovation at-hand. The article talked about immediately sterilizing the wound and how to properly gauze it up. It also goes into detail about the common method of placing the amputated body part in a waterproof bag, then putting the bag in ice. Lastly, the author states that it is imperative to NOT allow the body part to touch ice or dry ice, as it can result in thermal necrosis.
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