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Volume 52 - Issue 10 - October, 2006

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Skin Matters: Pain from Skin and Wound Conditions: Part 2
10/01/2006
   Part 1 of this article provided a general approach to skin and wound pain and included a guide to managing painful skin and wound conditions. Part 2 presents a detailed conceptual model that considers pain specific to particular types of...
   Part 1 of this article provided a general approach to skin and wound pain and included a guide to managing painful skin and wound conditions. Part 2 presents a detailed conceptual model that considers pain specific to particular types of...
   Part 1 of this article...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
New Products and Industry News
10/01/2006
Educational program trains, empowers, and develops core competencies   Coloplast (Marietta, Ga) has launched an award-winning, accredited modular educational program, “Skin: the Vital Organ.” This program is designed to develop specific skin...
Educational program trains, empowers, and develops core competencies   Coloplast (Marietta, Ga) has launched an award-winning, accredited modular educational program, “Skin: the Vital Organ.” This program is designed to develop specific skin...
Educational program trains,...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
The Ostomy Files: The Modernity of Ostomy
10/01/2006
There is nothing past for which one may yearn, there is only an eternal newness which is shaped by the wider elements of the past and true nostalgia has always to be productive to create a new excellence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    A...
There is nothing past for which one may yearn, there is only an eternal newness which is shaped by the wider elements of the past and true nostalgia has always to be productive to create a new excellence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    A...
There is nothing past for which...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
My Scope of Practice: Salvaging Feet, Limbs… and Hope
10/01/2006
  Thanks to clinicians like Stanley Kalish, DPM, FACFAS, and his disciple, Brent Bernstein, DPM, FACFAS, people with foot abnormalities and wounds no longer face certain amputation. Over the past 15 years, advances in podiatry and wound care...
  Thanks to clinicians like Stanley Kalish, DPM, FACFAS, and his disciple, Brent Bernstein, DPM, FACFAS, people with foot abnormalities and wounds no longer face certain amputation. Over the past 15 years, advances in podiatry and wound care...
  Thanks to clinicians like...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention

Feature

Empirical Studies
Falls and Patient Safety for Older Adults
10/01/2006
   America is “graying.” Currently, the elderly (65 years of age and older) represent 12.4% of the US population, with nearly 1.8% over age 85.1 It is anticipated that by the year 2020 more than 20% of the population will be older than 65...
   America is “graying.” Currently, the elderly (65 years of age and older) represent 12.4% of the US population, with nearly 1.8% over age 85.1 It is anticipated that by the year 2020 more than 20% of the population will be older than 65...
   America is “graying.”...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Obesity: Changing the Face of Geriatric Care
10/01/2006
   Obese Americans exhibit varying forms and degrees of impairment in activities of daily living simply because of their increased body weight, suggesting a relationship between increased body weight and functional limitation.1 As these...
   Obese Americans exhibit varying forms and degrees of impairment in activities of daily living simply because of their increased body weight, suggesting a relationship between increased body weight and functional limitation.1 As these...
   Obese Americans exhibit...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Lower Extremity Malignancies Masquerading as Ulcers
10/01/2006
    An ulcer is an area of epidermal and/or dermal loss that may extend to muscle or bone.1 In individuals >65 years old, lower extremity ulcers are a common reason for evaluation by the podiatrist, wound care specialist, primary care...
    An ulcer is an area of epidermal and/or dermal loss that may extend to muscle or bone.1 In individuals >65 years old, lower extremity ulcers are a common reason for evaluation by the podiatrist, wound care specialist, primary care...
    An ulcer is an area of...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Nutrition and Aging: A Transdisciplinary Approach
10/01/2006
A Significant Problem    The elderly population is increasing. Because physical, social, and psychological factors may predispose this population to decreased nutritional status, healthcare providers should be aware of the care implications...
A Significant Problem    The elderly population is increasing. Because physical, social, and psychological factors may predispose this population to decreased nutritional status, healthcare providers should be aware of the care implications...
A Significant Problem    The...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Editorial
Can We Talk?: Lessons Learned by Communicating
10/01/2006
On August 23, our local newspaper, Commercial Appeal, published an article that caught my eye. The article, “Bedsore Know-How is Lacking,” briefly summarized an article published on the same day in the Journal of the American Medical...
On August 23, our local newspaper, Commercial Appeal, published an article that caught my eye. The article, “Bedsore Know-How is Lacking,” briefly summarized an article published on the same day in the Journal of the American Medical...
On August 23, our local...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Guest Editorial
Guest Editorial: The Challenges of Geriatric Care
10/01/2006
   Many geriatric patients will develop wounds that heal slowly or fail to heal altogether. Structural changes associated with aging of the skin may predispose persons to poor wound healing. In the epidermis the dermo-epidermal junction may...
   Many geriatric patients will develop wounds that heal slowly or fail to heal altogether. Structural changes associated with aging of the skin may predispose persons to poor wound healing. In the epidermis the dermo-epidermal junction may...
   Many geriatric patients will...
10/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention

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