Body heating and cooling garment

Orthopedic extremity trauma accounts for 65% of combat wounds, over half of which are penetrating soft-tissue wounds. Treatment of open wounds has long been a troublesome area in the practice of medicine. Open and complex wounds heal more slowly than other wounds, and are susceptible to higher infection rates. The US Naval Medical Center at Portsmouth is developing a system that combines negative pressure wound therapy for improved healing, with localized cooling of tissue through a...