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Wound Botulism Underrecognized Among Heroin Users
01/21/2019
Wound botulism symptoms, including droopy eyelids, blurred or double vision, slurred speech, and paralysis, closely resemble those of opioid intoxication and make it increasingly more difficult to recognize in a patient. A recent outbreak of...
Wound botulism symptoms, including droopy eyelids, blurred or double vision, slurred speech, and paralysis, closely resemble those of opioid intoxication and make it increasingly more difficult to recognize in a patient. A recent outbreak of...
Wound botulism symptoms,...
01/21/2019
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Federal Supply Schedule Contract Gives Military Personnel Greater Access to Skin-Friendly Wound Care
01/18/2019
URGO Medical North America, formerly SteadMed Medical, has secured a Federal Supply Schedule contract. This contract covers its VASHE®product line that includes a skin-friendly wound solution intended for a variety of uses including...
URGO Medical North America, formerly SteadMed Medical, has secured a Federal Supply Schedule contract. This contract covers its VASHE®product line that includes a skin-friendly wound solution intended for a variety of uses including...
URGO Medical North America,...
01/18/2019
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First Noninvasive, Undisruptive Blood Flow and Perfusion Imaging Medical Device Approved by FDA
01/17/2019
RFPi has created a medical imaging device that will not interrupt surgical procedures, or require injections, dyes, radiation, or direct patient contact, to show blood flow. The intent of this product, iCertainty, is to reduce procedural...
RFPi has created a medical imaging device that will not interrupt surgical procedures, or require injections, dyes, radiation, or direct patient contact, to show blood flow. The intent of this product, iCertainty, is to reduce procedural...
RFPi has created a medical...
01/17/2019
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New Human Health Strategy Focuses on Creation of Wound Care Hydrogel Containing Patented Enzyme
01/17/2019
Kane Biotech Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba), is focusing on using their patented enzyme DispersinB®to create a wound care hydrogel. The ultimate goal of this development would be to remove bacteria biofilm to improve the efficacy of existing wound...
Kane Biotech Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba), is focusing on using their patented enzyme DispersinB®to create a wound care hydrogel. The ultimate goal of this development would be to remove bacteria biofilm to improve the efficacy of existing wound...
Kane Biotech Inc. (Winnipeg,...
01/17/2019
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Dr. Bonnie Fraser Recognized as a Pinnacle Lifetime Member by Continental Who’s Who
01/17/2019
Dr. Bonnie Fraser continuously works to improve patients’ health through quality care and education. After working as an expert within the Hand & Microvascular Surgery division for 17 years, she took her compassion and her knowledge and...
Dr. Bonnie Fraser continuously works to improve patients’ health through quality care and education. After working as an expert within the Hand & Microvascular Surgery division for 17 years, she took her compassion and her knowledge and...
Dr. Bonnie Fraser continuously...
01/17/2019
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Reaccreditation granted for Carroll Hospital’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
01/17/2019
Carroll Hospital’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine achieved reaccreditation by Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society due to their high-quality facility and equipment, as well as exceptional training and professionalism of the...
Carroll Hospital’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine achieved reaccreditation by Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society due to their high-quality facility and equipment, as well as exceptional training and professionalism of the...
Carroll Hospital’s Center for...
01/17/2019
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Certification for New Wound Care and Podiatry EHR Achieved on First Attempt
01/16/2019
Intellicure, Inc. (The Woodlands, TX) announced that its leading wound care and podiatry EHR has passed the Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) test. This marks the third time that the company has achieved certification on...
Intellicure, Inc. (The Woodlands, TX) announced that its leading wound care and podiatry EHR has passed the Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) test. This marks the third time that the company has achieved certification on...
Intellicure, Inc. (The...
01/16/2019
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Inelastic Compression Wrap Launched to Manage Venous Disease and Venous Leg Ulcers
01/16/2019
medi USA (Whitsett, NC), a medical device manufacturer, announced a new ready-to-wear inelastic compression wrap that offers graduated compression over an entire lower leg. This product, circaid® juxtalite® hd, aims to improve patients’...
medi USA (Whitsett, NC), a medical device manufacturer, announced a new ready-to-wear inelastic compression wrap that offers graduated compression over an entire lower leg. This product, circaid® juxtalite® hd, aims to improve patients’...
medi USA (Whitsett, NC), a...
01/16/2019
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Wound Botulism Tied to Opioid Epidemic
01/09/2019
  The ongoing opioid epidemic that has engulfed the country continues to have wound care implications. Health officials are now warning that clinicians be aware of the potential for wound botulism, a rare but potentially fatal illness that...
  The ongoing opioid epidemic that has engulfed the country continues to have wound care implications. Health officials are now warning that clinicians be aware of the potential for wound botulism, a rare but potentially fatal illness that...
  The ongoing opioid epidemic...
01/09/2019
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Wound Clinic News and Notes
01/09/2019
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01/09/2019
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Letter From the Editor

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Advocate for Your Wound Care Patients on the Proposed MAC Policy on CTPs
05/29/2024
Eric J. Lullove, DPM, CWSP
The MACs recently released proposed coverage policy updates for applying CTPs for DFUs and VLUs. This is your opportunity to effect change by submitting comments to the MACs before the policy becomes final. You have a responsibility to know...
The MACs recently released proposed coverage policy updates for applying CTPs for DFUs and VLUs. This is your opportunity to effect change by submitting comments to the MACs before the policy becomes final. You have a responsibility to know...
The MACs recently released...
05/29/2024
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The Future of Wound Care in the Quality Payment Program
03/13/2024
Whether we will be able to survive as wound care practitioners will, at least in part, depend on having quality measures that are relevant to what we actually do.
Whether we will be able to survive as wound care practitioners will, at least in part, depend on having quality measures that are relevant to what we actually do.
Whether we will be able to...
03/13/2024
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The Non-Pressure Ulcer Episode-Based Cost Measure "Field Test" Began Feb. 1
02/05/2024
For years I have been explaining how the QPP could be the end of wound care practitioners. The entire QPP is designed around recognized medical specialties and since there is no recognized specialty for wound care, we are all in trouble.
For years I have been explaining how the QPP could be the end of wound care practitioners. The entire QPP is designed around recognized medical specialties and since there is no recognized specialty for wound care, we are all in trouble.
For years I have been explaining...
02/05/2024
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Guest Editorial
The G-Code Solution to Skin Substitute Reimbursement
01/25/2024
I am calling on CMS to adopt new G codes to replace Q code reimbursement and CPT 15000 codes for skin substitute application procedures and to establish skin substitute product code classes.
I am calling on CMS to adopt new G codes to replace Q code reimbursement and CPT 15000 codes for skin substitute application procedures and to establish skin substitute product code classes.
I am calling on CMS to adopt new...
01/25/2024
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Guest Editorial
Wound Size Matters: Analysis of the New Restrictive Skin Substitute LCD Policy
09/01/2023
With so much ambiguity remaining, an immediate compromise on the number of applications to allow 7 is warranted both from an ethical and medical perspective. The current restriction of 4 applications is clearly not based on an accurate...
With so much ambiguity remaining, an immediate compromise on the number of applications to allow 7 is warranted both from an ethical and medical perspective. The current restriction of 4 applications is clearly not based on an accurate...
With so much ambiguity...
09/01/2023
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Guest Editorial
Wrestling With Implicit Bias to Deliver Better Care for Our Patients
06/01/2023
For some, bias remains a sensitive issue, and some people are reluctant to admit to the need for introspection. However, to mitigate the ill effects of bias, everyone must first acknowledge that it exists.
For some, bias remains a sensitive issue, and some people are reluctant to admit to the need for introspection. However, to mitigate the ill effects of bias, everyone must first acknowledge that it exists.
For some, bias remains a...
06/01/2023
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From the Editor
Confessions of a Doctor With Lipedema
03/14/2023
It is hard to understand how demoralizing it is. Lipedema affects your entire life, starting in the teenage years.
It is hard to understand how demoralizing it is. Lipedema affects your entire life, starting in the teenage years.
It is hard to understand how...
03/14/2023
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From the Editor
Why Won’t the DME Provide Dressings for My Patient?
02/23/2023
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My...
02/23/2023
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Guest Editorial
How Wound Care Providers Can Treat Patients Like People, Not Like Cases
02/01/2023
Finding a skilled wound care professional comes down finding someone who is confident in their skill/craft—someone who treats the whole patient, not just the wound. Finding someone who would see me as a person and a whole being rather than...
Finding a skilled wound care professional comes down finding someone who is confident in their skill/craft—someone who treats the whole patient, not just the wound. Finding someone who would see me as a person and a whole being rather than...
Finding a skilled wound care...
02/01/2023
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Guest Editorial
Amputations in Pyoderma Gangrenosum Patients: Underreported or Very Rare?
01/11/2023
Are providers missing the diagnosis of PG because they are anchoring on “positive” biopsy findings? Could we be missing cases in which PG patients underwent amputation, didn’t have a recurrence, and were never diagnosed? Or are we just not...
Are providers missing the diagnosis of PG because they are anchoring on “positive” biopsy findings? Could we be missing cases in which PG patients underwent amputation, didn’t have a recurrence, and were never diagnosed? Or are we just not...
Are providers missing the...
01/11/2023
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Coping With COVID-19

Business Briefs
Telehealth Use Continues and Receives Further Medicare Payment 
01/25/2023
The COVID-19 PHE has been extended for 90 more days. This author reviews the Medicare telehealth flexibility extensions that may be important to wound/ulcer management professionals.
The COVID-19 PHE has been extended for 90 more days. This author reviews the Medicare telehealth flexibility extensions that may be important to wound/ulcer management professionals.
The COVID-19 PHE has been...
01/25/2023
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Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Waivers Q&A
09/07/2022
This author answers more questions about what will happen to telehealth and other waivers when the COVID-19 PHE ends.
This author answers more questions about what will happen to telehealth and other waivers when the COVID-19 PHE ends.
This author answers more...
09/07/2022
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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Extension Also Applies to Telehealth
08/15/2022
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is extended through October 13, 2022. Many wound/ulcer management professionals have been using telehealth and should be happy to know that the Medicare waivers pertaining to telehealth have also...
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is extended through October 13, 2022. Many wound/ulcer management professionals have been using telehealth and should be happy to know that the Medicare waivers pertaining to telehealth have also...
The COVID-19 Public Health...
08/15/2022
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Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Coding Changes, and Coverage Changes Continue
02/09/2022
For this month, let us review the continuation of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the continuation of the ever-changing codes and coverage.
For this month, let us review the continuation of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the continuation of the ever-changing codes and coverage.
For this month, let us review...
02/09/2022
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