5th Annual David R. Boyd, MD Lecture: Revolutionary advances in wound repair in emergency medicine during the last three decades. A view toward the new millennium.

This lecture provides an overview of advances in wound repair devised by our multidisciplinary team of physicians, scientists, and students. Our collective efforts have devised products, drugs, and concepts that are facilitating wound repair without infection and with the least possible scar. Some of the beneficial products and drugs developed or identified by our laboratory include nitrile examination and surgical gloves, magnification loupes, high pressure syringe irrigation, Shur Clens, as well as a wide variety of different wound closure techniques. In addition, our studies of the mechanism of wound injury, soil infection-potentiating fractions, dynamic and static skin tensions, and microflora of the skin have become important predictors of the outcomes of wound repair. During the new millennium, the computerized clinical information system as well as studies of tissue regeneration should dramatically change our approaches to wound repair.