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Volume 53 - Issue 2 - February, 2007

Feature

Empirical Studies
Evaluating the Implementation and Outcomes of the Saskatchewan Pressure Ulcer Guidelines in Long-Term Care Facilities
02/01/2007
Introduction   Pressure ulcers represent a burden of illness for patients and residents in a variety of healthcare settings in Canada as well as a considerable cost to the healthcare system. Few studies have measured the prevalence of...
Introduction   Pressure ulcers represent a burden of illness for patients and residents in a variety of healthcare settings in Canada as well as a considerable cost to the healthcare system. Few studies have measured the prevalence of...
Introduction   Pressure ulcers...
02/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
A Prospective, Descriptive Pressure Ulcer Risk Factor and Prevalence Study at a University Hospital in Turkey
02/01/2007
Introduction   Despite advances in medicine, surgery, and nursing care, pressure ulcers continue to be a common healthcare problem among hospitalized patients,1,2 causing pain, suffering, and frustration. Pressure ulcers increase the...
Introduction   Despite advances in medicine, surgery, and nursing care, pressure ulcers continue to be a common healthcare problem among hospitalized patients,1,2 causing pain, suffering, and frustration. Pressure ulcers increase the...
Introduction   Despite advances...
02/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Intraoperatively Acquired Pressure Ulcers: Are There Common Risk Factors?
02/01/2007
Introduction   Descriptive studies1-4 related to contributory factors in pressure ulcers conducted in long-term care and acute care settings have led to the development of many well-known skin risk assessment tools (ie, Gosnell’s Assessment...
Introduction   Descriptive studies1-4 related to contributory factors in pressure ulcers conducted in long-term care and acute care settings have led to the development of many well-known skin risk assessment tools (ie, Gosnell’s Assessment...
Introduction   Descriptive...
02/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Pressure Ulcers and Other Chronic Wounds in Patients with and Patients without Cancer: A Retrospective, Comparative Analysis of Healing Patterns
02/01/2007
Introduction   More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer.1 Five years after diagnosis, 64% of individuals with cancer are alive; 61% of cancer survivors are 65 years or older. One in every six Americans 65 years or older is a...
Introduction   More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer.1 Five years after diagnosis, 64% of individuals with cancer are alive; 61% of cancer survivors are 65 years or older. One in every six Americans 65 years or older is a...
Introduction   More than 10...
02/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Guest Editorial
Guest Editorial: A Timely and Timeless Event
02/01/2007
  The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) is an independent, not-for-profit professional organization dedicated to promoting evidenced-based care for pressure ulcers. Formed in 1987, the NPUAP is composed of a multidisciplinary...
  The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) is an independent, not-for-profit professional organization dedicated to promoting evidenced-based care for pressure ulcers. Formed in 1987, the NPUAP is composed of a multidisciplinary...
  The National Pressure Ulcer...
02/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
The Ostomy Files: Snow Birding: Traveling with an Ostomy
02/01/2007
  February is the month when Old Man Winter plays hardball. Many people living in northern climates choose this time of year to pack up and travel south to escape cabin fever, the cold, the wind, gray skies, and a depressive condition called...
  February is the month when Old Man Winter plays hardball. Many people living in northern climates choose this time of year to pack up and travel south to escape cabin fever, the cold, the wind, gray skies, and a depressive condition called...
  February is the month when Old...
02/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
My Scope of Practice: At the Center of a Center of Excellence
02/01/2007
  Inspired by the final words of her father and later validated by her dying brother’s support for what he called “her gift,” Cathleen (“Cathy”) Markley, RN, BS, CWOCN, pursued a career in nursing and nurtured an interest in patients with...
  Inspired by the final words of her father and later validated by her dying brother’s support for what he called “her gift,” Cathleen (“Cathy”) Markley, RN, BS, CWOCN, pursued a career in nursing and nurtured an interest in patients with...
  Inspired by the final words of...
02/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention

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Understanding Moisture-associated Skin Damage and Best Practice Recommendations
Special Report on MASD written by Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP, MAPWCA; Siobhan McCoulough, CNS; and Patricia Idensohn, CNS.
Gelling Fiber Dressings: How Structure and Function Relate to Healing
Biomedical engineer Amit Gefen, BSc, MSc, PhD, discusses dressings in general and gelling dressings in particular from an engineering and clinical use perspective.
The Wound Hygiene Protocol: An Expert Challenge of Complex Wounds
The supplement provides a brief overview of the Wound Hygiene Protocol, developed by ConvaTec, as well as a series of clinical cases presented by experts in their respective fields. These clinical cases challenge the reader to consider how to best approach the reported wound cases. 

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