Volume 54 - Issue 11 - November, 2008

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Empirical Studies

Preventing and Modulating Learned Wound Pain

11/01/2008

Wounds cause pain but the consequences of wound pain remain largely unknown. Studies from other disciplines have shown that pain can contribute to the long-term physiological and emotional consequences of the pain experience, setting the...

Wounds cause pain but the...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

Empirical Studies

Early Versus Late Initiation of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy: Examining the Impact on Home Care Length of Stay

11/01/2008

Because of the high cost of some wound management regimens, payors may require that moist wound therapies be used before other treatment approaches, such as negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), are implemented but few studies have...

Because of the high cost of some...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

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New Products/Industry News

11/01/2008

New device designed to minimize discomfort and pain following ostomy surgery ConvaTec (Skillman, NJ) recently launched SUR-FIT Natura® Low-Pressure Adaptor, a new postoperative ostomy device. The product offers clinicians and ostomy...

New device designed to minimize...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

Empirical Studies

Assessing the Need for Developing a Comprehensive Content-Validated Pressure Ulcer Guideline

11/01/2008

Healthcare professionals need evidence-based strategies and guidelines for care to optimize pressure ulcer prevention and management. Differences among pressure ulcer guidelines confuse caregivers, reducing consistency of care. To assess the...

Healthcare professionals need...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

Acoustic Pressure Wound Therapy in the Treatment of Stage II Pressure Ulcers

11/01/2008

Pressure ulcers are localized skin injuries secondary to unrelieved pressure or friction. Patients with immobility issues are at increased risk for developing pressure ulcers. In 2004, stricter federal regulations for prevention and treatment...

Pressure ulcers are localized...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

S-L-O-W D-O-W-N

11/01/2008

I have been with the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) for about 10 years, so I hope you will oblige my getting personal. I have a question: As you take care of your patients and/or work for the betterment of the...

I have been with the...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

PEARLS FOR PRACTICE

Making the Most of Your Silver Dressings

11/01/2008

Silver-containing dressings are used for managing wound bioburden and are available as alginates, foams, films, hydrocolloids, hydrogels, contact layers, and collagens. Typically, a silver dressing is chosen because 1) the wound is at...

Silver-containing dressings...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

Minimizing Complications of Pain and Dressing Adherence in the Treatment of Venous Leg Ulcers

11/01/2008

Venous leg ulcers affect more than 600,000 people in the United States per year1 and make up nearly 80% of all leg ulcers. 2 Wounds caused by venous insufficiency tend to heal slowly and often recur. 3 In addition, venous leg ulcer pain...

Venous leg ulcers affect...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

How One Woman‚Äôs Passion is Changing International Wound Care

11/01/2008

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. –Kahlil Gibran She wakes up a 6 a.m., takes Mazy, the long-haired dachshund to doggy day care, attends an hour-long...

You give but little when...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

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Guest Editorial

Guest Editorial: Perpetuating Information: The AAWC-OWM Partnership

11/01/2008

One of the most important contributions of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) is the ability to increase the knowledge of our members, which ultimately leads to improved patient outcomes. As part of that goal, each...

One of the most important...

11/01/2008

Wound Management & Prevention

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Use of a New Dressing Protocol in Chronic Lower Extremity Wounds on Homebound Patients: A Retrospective Study

Study to determine if the use of a new dressing protocol applied by advanced practice certified wound care nurses at the patient’s residence could be effective in rapid wound resolution.

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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