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Volume 51 - Issue 5 - May, 2005

Column
The Ostomy Files: What is Preventive Ostomy Care?
05/01/2005
    Preventive medicine is at the forefront of payors’, regulators’, and providers’ agendas. It is important to examine what may be done to prevent the most common complications associated with ostomy surgery — complications that drive cost,...
    Preventive medicine is at the forefront of payors’, regulators’, and providers’ agendas. It is important to examine what may be done to prevent the most common complications associated with ostomy surgery — complications that drive cost,...
    Preventive medicine is at...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Unna Boots versus Multilayered, Sustained, Graduated High Compression Bandage Systems
05/01/2005
AMA Recommended 29580 for Unna Boot and Multilayered, Sustained, Graduated High Compression Bandage Systems     In February 1999, the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT®1 Editorial Panel voted against issuing a new CPT code for the...
AMA Recommended 29580 for Unna Boot and Multilayered, Sustained, Graduated High Compression Bandage Systems     In February 1999, the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT®1 Editorial Panel voted against issuing a new CPT code for the...
AMA Recommended 29580 for Unna...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
New Products and Industry News
05/01/2005
Acrylic dressing optimizes clinical performance and wear time     3M™Health Care (St. Paul, Minn.) recently developed Tegaderm™ Absorbent Clear Acrylic Dressing to enable easier wound monitoring and to offer the absorbency necessary to...
Acrylic dressing optimizes clinical performance and wear time     3M™Health Care (St. Paul, Minn.) recently developed Tegaderm™ Absorbent Clear Acrylic Dressing to enable easier wound monitoring and to offer the absorbency necessary to...
Acrylic dressing optimizes...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Special to OWM: Alliance Successful in Educating the MCAC on Usual Care of Chronic Wounds
05/01/2005
    The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (“Alliance”) provided speakers with specific and critical wound care expertise to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) meeting, held March 29, which enabled the Committee to make positive...
    The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (“Alliance”) provided speakers with specific and critical wound care expertise to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) meeting, held March 29, which enabled the Committee to make positive...
    The Alliance of Wound Care...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Editorial
Can We Talk?: Pressure Ulcers — A National Embarrassment
05/01/2005
    One particular aspect of the Terri Schiavo case struck a chord.     Terri Schiavo was at extremely high risk for developing pressure ulcers, yet according to news reports, she had none. I have very mixed reactions — I was impressed with...
    One particular aspect of the Terri Schiavo case struck a chord.     Terri Schiavo was at extremely high risk for developing pressure ulcers, yet according to news reports, she had none. I have very mixed reactions — I was impressed with...
    One particular aspect of the...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Guest Editorial
Guest Editorial: The Politics of Influence
05/01/2005
    My local newspaper, Long Island Newsday, does a fair job of keeping me abreast of happenings on my home front. It also features a few highly polished gems, such as Saul Friedman’s “Gray Matters,” a weekly column for senior citizens....
    My local newspaper, Long Island Newsday, does a fair job of keeping me abreast of happenings on my home front. It also features a few highly polished gems, such as Saul Friedman’s “Gray Matters,” a weekly column for senior citizens....
    My local newspaper, Long...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention

Feature

Empirical Studies
Clinical Quality Indicators of Venous Leg Ulcers: Development, Feasibility, and Reliability
05/01/2005
    Studies on venous leg ulcer patients show large variations in the use of proven efficacious diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.1-4 This suggests that the quality of medical technical care — eg, provision of appropriate prevention,...
    Studies on venous leg ulcer patients show large variations in the use of proven efficacious diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.1-4 This suggests that the quality of medical technical care — eg, provision of appropriate prevention,...
    Studies on venous leg ulcer...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Use of the PUSH Tool to Measure Venous Ulcer Healing
05/01/2005
    Wound assessment is critical to monitoring the effectiveness of treatment in chronic wounds. Accurate and comprehensive wound assessment depends on meticulous and consistent clinical observations and quantitative measurements. Regular...
    Wound assessment is critical to monitoring the effectiveness of treatment in chronic wounds. Accurate and comprehensive wound assessment depends on meticulous and consistent clinical observations and quantitative measurements. Regular...
    Wound assessment is critical...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Venous Ulcers: Pathophysiology and Treatment Options—Part 1
05/01/2005
    A chronic wound, as defined by the Wound Healing Society, is a wound that has not healed in a timely fashion.1 Factors that affect “timely” include, but are not limited to, patient age, wound location, and wound origin/cause. Many...
    A chronic wound, as defined by the Wound Healing Society, is a wound that has not healed in a timely fashion.1 Factors that affect “timely” include, but are not limited to, patient age, wound location, and wound origin/cause. Many...
    A chronic wound, as defined...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Venous Ulcers: Pathophysiology and Treatment Options—Part 2
05/01/2005
Part 1 Grafting     When dressings and medical management fail or when rapid healing is essential, skin grafting is an excellent alternative. The first recorded skin grafts were performed in India and Egypt. More recently, skin grafting has...
Part 1 Grafting     When dressings and medical management fail or when rapid healing is essential, skin grafting is an excellent alternative. The first recorded skin grafts were performed in India and Egypt. More recently, skin grafting has...
Part 1 Grafting     When...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention

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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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