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Volume 56 - Issue 5 - May, 2010

Feature

Empirical Studies
05/10/2010
Abstract   Scanning electron microscopy study results support an in vitro bactericidal effect of low-frequency ultrasound (LFU) delivered at 40 kHz on bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The purpose of...
Abstract   Scanning electron microscopy study results support an in vitro bactericidal effect of low-frequency ultrasound (LFU) delivered at 40 kHz on bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The purpose of...
Abstract   Scanning electron...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
05/10/2010
Abstract    The creation of a stoma can profoundly affect a patient’s quality of life. A prospective, 3-month multicenter study was conducted to evaluate stoma patient quality of life among volunteers receiving standard clinical follow-up...
Abstract    The creation of a stoma can profoundly affect a patient’s quality of life. A prospective, 3-month multicenter study was conducted to evaluate stoma patient quality of life among volunteers receiving standard clinical follow-up...
Abstract    The creation of a...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
05/10/2010
Abstract     Fragmented teaching and ostomy care provided by nonspecialized clinicians unfamiliar with state-of-the-art care and products have been identified as problems in teaching ostomy care to the new ostomate. After conducting a...
Abstract     Fragmented teaching and ostomy care provided by nonspecialized clinicians unfamiliar with state-of-the-art care and products have been identified as problems in teaching ostomy care to the new ostomate. After conducting a...
Abstract     Fragmented...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
05/10/2010
Abstract Institutionally acquired pressure ulcers are used as outcome indicators to assess the quality of pressure ulcer prevention programs. Determining whether quality improvement projects that aim to decrease the proportions of...
Abstract Institutionally acquired pressure ulcers are used as outcome indicators to assess the quality of pressure ulcer prevention programs. Determining whether quality improvement projects that aim to decrease the proportions of...
Abstract Institutionally...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Industry Insider
05/10/2010
Continence control device receives medical design excellence award   ConvaTec (Skillman, NJ) recently announced that the Vitala™ Continence Control Device (CCD) has received a 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award. Vitala™ CCD is a...
Continence control device receives medical design excellence award   ConvaTec (Skillman, NJ) recently announced that the Vitala™ Continence Control Device (CCD) has received a 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award. Vitala™ CCD is a...
Continence control device...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
05/10/2010
Perhaps this very instant is your time. — Louise Bogan, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1897–1970)   During the last US presidential election and in its aftermath with the recent passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of...
Perhaps this very instant is your time. — Louise Bogan, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1897–1970)   During the last US presidential election and in its aftermath with the recent passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of...
Perhaps this very instant is...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
05/10/2010
  Carelyn P. Fylling, RN, MSN, CWS, CLNC, wasted little time submerging herself in her work. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from North Park College (Chicago, IL), a Master’s Degree in Nursing from the University of...
  Carelyn P. Fylling, RN, MSN, CWS, CLNC, wasted little time submerging herself in her work. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from North Park College (Chicago, IL), a Master’s Degree in Nursing from the University of...
  Carelyn P. Fylling, RN, MSN,...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
05/10/2010
   Most wound care practitioners are familiar with the relationship between appropriate nutritional care and wound healing. We strive to meet each patient’s needs for protein, calories, fluids, vitamins, and minerals in order to provide the...
   Most wound care practitioners are familiar with the relationship between appropriate nutritional care and wound healing. We strive to meet each patient’s needs for protein, calories, fluids, vitamins, and minerals in order to provide the...
   Most wound care practitioners...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Guest Editorial
05/10/2010
    Global awareness of the “hidden epidemic”1 of lymphedema and chronic wounds was heralded by a wake-up call from the World Alliance of Wound and Lymphedema Care2 (WAWLC). Worldwide, one person in 30 is estimated to suffer from lymphedema,1...
    Global awareness of the “hidden epidemic”1 of lymphedema and chronic wounds was heralded by a wake-up call from the World Alliance of Wound and Lymphedema Care2 (WAWLC). Worldwide, one person in 30 is estimated to suffer from lymphedema,1...
    Global awareness of the...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Letter from the Editor
05/10/2010
Takahashi PY. Chandra A, Cha SS, Crane SJ. A predictive model for venous ulceration in older adults: results of a retrospective cohort study. Ostomy Wound Manage. 2010;56(4):60–66. Since publication of the April 2010 issue of Ostomy Wound...
Takahashi PY. Chandra A, Cha SS, Crane SJ. A predictive model for venous ulceration in older adults: results of a retrospective cohort study. Ostomy Wound Manage. 2010;56(4):60–66. Since publication of the April 2010 issue of Ostomy Wound...
Takahashi PY. Chandra A, Cha SS,...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention

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