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Volume 54 - Issue 2 - February, 2008

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Empirical Studies
Decreasing the Incidence of Heel Pressure Ulcers in Long-term Care by Increasing Awareness: Results of a 1-Year Program
02/01/2008
  Extended care involves numerous medical regimens relevant to diverse concerns such as higher patient acuity, rehabilitation, and terminal illness. Some long-term care facilities offer skilled nursing care comparable to subacute units;...
  Extended care involves numerous medical regimens relevant to diverse concerns such as higher patient acuity, rehabilitation, and terminal illness. Some long-term care facilities offer skilled nursing care comparable to subacute units;...
  Extended care involves...
02/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Reliability and Clinical Validity of a Technique to Assess Lifetime Illicit Injection Drug Use
02/01/2008
  A lifetime illicit injection drug history covers time periods when chemical assays for illicit substances (eg, urine, blood, or sputum analysis) cannot provide meaningful data. Self-report of the drug history allows for a historical...
  A lifetime illicit injection drug history covers time periods when chemical assays for illicit substances (eg, urine, blood, or sputum analysis) cannot provide meaningful data. Self-report of the drug history allows for a historical...
  A lifetime illicit injection...
02/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Results of Nine International Pressure Ulcer Prevalence Surveys: 1989 to 2005
02/01/2008
  The authors disclose they are employees of Hill-Rom®, Batesville, IN. Hill-Rom® provided funding for the study .   Pressure ulcers are a significant burden to the healthcare environment in the US, Europe, and other countries.1-6 Over the...
  The authors disclose they are employees of Hill-Rom®, Batesville, IN. Hill-Rom® provided funding for the study .   Pressure ulcers are a significant burden to the healthcare environment in the US, Europe, and other countries.1-6 Over the...
  The authors disclose they are...
02/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
A Descriptive Study of Pressure Ulcer Pain
02/01/2008
  Despite advances in medicine, surgery, and nursing care, pressure ulcers continue to be a common problem among hospitalized patients, causing pain, suffering, and frustration.1,2 Although knowledge about pain has increased, this symptom has...
  Despite advances in medicine, surgery, and nursing care, pressure ulcers continue to be a common problem among hospitalized patients, causing pain, suffering, and frustration.1,2 Although knowledge about pain has increased, this symptom has...
  Despite advances in medicine,...
02/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
Sound Evidence: Wound Closure and Gradual Involution of an Infantile Hemangioma Using a Noncontact, Low-frequency Ultrasound Therapy
02/01/2008
  Facial hemangiomas, the most benign vascular neoplasms of infancy and childhood, occur in up to 10% of infants and are more common in females and white infants.1,2 Although most hemangiomas do not result in significant complications, some...
  Facial hemangiomas, the most benign vascular neoplasms of infancy and childhood, occur in up to 10% of infants and are more common in females and white infants.1,2 Although most hemangiomas do not result in significant complications, some...
  Facial hemangiomas, the most...
02/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
OWM People: Meet Our Publisher
02/01/2008
  Jeremy Bowden, VP and Group Publisher of Wound Care and recently appointed Group Publisher of the Dermatology and Podiatry divisions, is responsible for overseeing the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) in addition to generating...
  Jeremy Bowden, VP and Group Publisher of Wound Care and recently appointed Group Publisher of the Dermatology and Podiatry divisions, is responsible for overseeing the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) in addition to generating...
  Jeremy Bowden, VP and Group...
02/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Wound Pain: Revisiting a Time-Honored Strategy
02/01/2008
  Wounds hurt. They are sensitive to temperature changes, chemicals, manipulation, pressure, and movement. Healing wounds, with their newly formed nerve tissue, are often hypersensitive to stimuli.1 Most publications on wound pain focus on...
  Wounds hurt. They are sensitive to temperature changes, chemicals, manipulation, pressure, and movement. Healing wounds, with their newly formed nerve tissue, are often hypersensitive to stimuli.1 Most publications on wound pain focus on...
  Wounds hurt. They are...
02/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Editorial
Editor`s Opinion: The Pressure Is On
02/01/2008
  The study findings reported in this issue of Ostomy Wound Management remind us, once again, that chronic wounds are universal, common, and painful. Fortunately for busy clinicians, diligent researchers continue to test clinically useful,...
  The study findings reported in this issue of Ostomy Wound Management remind us, once again, that chronic wounds are universal, common, and painful. Fortunately for busy clinicians, diligent researchers continue to test clinically useful,...
  The study findings reported in...
02/01/2008
Wound Management & Prevention

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