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Volume 55 - Issue 6 - June, 2009

PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
06/01/2009
     Our healthcare system sought to enrich and improve strategies to assess, document, and prevent pressure ulcers and to identify key personnel to implement these strategies. An evaluation of our practices yielded the following...
     Our healthcare system sought to enrich and improve strategies to assess, document, and prevent pressure ulcers and to identify key personnel to implement these strategies. An evaluation of our practices yielded the following...
     Our healthcare system...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
06/01/2009
     Protein, defined as a complex nitrogenous compound made up of amino acids in peptide linkages, is essential for life. Proteins carry out the work of the cell by serving as enzymes, receptors, transporters, hormones, antibodies, or...
     Protein, defined as a complex nitrogenous compound made up of amino acids in peptide linkages, is essential for life. Proteins carry out the work of the cell by serving as enzymes, receptors, transporters, hormones, antibodies, or...
     Protein, defined as a...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
06/01/2009
OWM recently spoke with Andrew J. Applewhite, MD, CWS, UHM, and Today’s Wound Clinic editorial board member, to learn about his academic and professional journey in wound care and his most recent accomplishment — ie, being named Medical...
OWM recently spoke with Andrew J. Applewhite, MD, CWS, UHM, and Today’s Wound Clinic editorial board member, to learn about his academic and professional journey in wound care and his most recent accomplishment — ie, being named Medical...
OWM recently spoke with Andrew...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
06/01/2009
     Nowhere in the world does life confront death more starkly than on the African continent. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than half of the 536,000 women around the world who die during pregnancy and childbirth are...
     Nowhere in the world does life confront death more starkly than on the African continent. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than half of the 536,000 women around the world who die during pregnancy and childbirth are...
     Nowhere in the world does...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Industry Insider
06/01/2009
Abdomen dressing receives FDA clearance      Kinetic Concepts Inc (KCI, San Antonio, TX) recently received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its ABThera™ Open Abdomen Dressing. Earlier this year, the...
Abdomen dressing receives FDA clearance      Kinetic Concepts Inc (KCI, San Antonio, TX) recently received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its ABThera™ Open Abdomen Dressing. Earlier this year, the...
Abdomen dressing receives FDA...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Literature Review
06/01/2009
Abstract: Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is used to treat a wide and growing range of problematic acute and chronic wounds. Continuous therapy delivered at -125 mm Hg has been routinely recommended, despite consistent research...
Abstract: Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is used to treat a wide and growing range of problematic acute and chronic wounds. Continuous therapy delivered at -125 mm Hg has been routinely recommended, despite consistent research...
Abstract: Negative pressure...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
06/01/2009
Abstract The successful implementation of wound care guidelines requires an appreciation for the frustrations experienced by nurses trying to incorporate these tools into clinical practice. These frustrations or barriers to best wound care...
Abstract The successful implementation of wound care guidelines requires an appreciation for the frustrations experienced by nurses trying to incorporate these tools into clinical practice. These frustrations or barriers to best wound care...
Abstract The successful...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention

Feature

Empirical Studies
06/01/2009
Abstract The use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is well established in the management of hard-to-heal wounds. One institution, familiar with NPWT’s capabilities as well as its shortcomings (eg, pain at dressing changes and pain...
Abstract The use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is well established in the management of hard-to-heal wounds. One institution, familiar with NPWT’s capabilities as well as its shortcomings (eg, pain at dressing changes and pain...
Abstract The use of negative...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Case Report
06/01/2009
Abstract Although mucocutaneous dehiscence in cases of laparostomies is rare, this complication occurred in three patients in the Netherlands (all men, 53 to 65 years old) who received topical negative pressure (TNP) therapy in the...
Abstract Although mucocutaneous dehiscence in cases of laparostomies is rare, this complication occurred in three patients in the Netherlands (all men, 53 to 65 years old) who received topical negative pressure (TNP) therapy in the...
Abstract Although mucocutaneous...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Editorial
06/01/2009
Perfection is the child of time. — Bishop Joseph Hall (1574–1656)      Last April, thousands of wound care professionals attended the Spring 2009 Symposium on Advanced Wound Care. While most of the country focused on the economy and swine...
Perfection is the child of time. — Bishop Joseph Hall (1574–1656)      Last April, thousands of wound care professionals attended the Spring 2009 Symposium on Advanced Wound Care. While most of the country focused on the economy and swine...
Perfection is the child of time....
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention

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