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Volume 57 - Issue 3 - March 2011

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SAWC Exhibitor Preview: The 24th Annual Spring Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and the Wound Healing Society Meeting
03/04/2011
April 14–17, 2011 Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center Dallas, Texas   For almost a quarter century, the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) has offered practitioners the clinical and product information necessary for the provision...
April 14–17, 2011 Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center Dallas, Texas   For almost a quarter century, the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) has offered practitioners the clinical and product information necessary for the provision...
April 14–17, 2011 Gaylord Texan...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Skin Tears: Keeping It Together
03/04/2011
  Skin tears are traumatic wounds caused by a separation of the epidermis and dermis. These two skin layers are joined together by a wave-like basement membrane that prevents sliding. As the skin ages, this membrane flattens, allowing the...
  Skin tears are traumatic wounds caused by a separation of the epidermis and dermis. These two skin layers are joined together by a wave-like basement membrane that prevents sliding. As the skin ages, this membrane flattens, allowing the...
  Skin tears are traumatic...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
My Scope of Practice: Inside HBOT: A Nurse’s Story
03/04/2011
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. - Oprah Winfrey   Megan Benson, RN, BSN, is the Safety Director of a wound care center recognized for superb clinical outcomes and patient...
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. - Oprah Winfrey   Megan Benson, RN, BSN, is the Safety Director of a wound care center recognized for superb clinical outcomes and patient...
What I know is, is that if you...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Continence Coach: LUTS and OAB in Men: Gender Matters
03/04/2011
  Because pregnancy and childbirth are leading risk factors for urinary incontinence (UI), the majority of studies focus on women. But healthcare providers need to be equally as conscious of problems with bladder control and other lower...
  Because pregnancy and childbirth are leading risk factors for urinary incontinence (UI), the majority of studies focus on women. But healthcare providers need to be equally as conscious of problems with bladder control and other lower...
  Because pregnancy and...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Nutrition 411: Dysphagia and Delayed Wound Healing: How Are They Related?
03/04/2011
  Consider the following scenario: Your patient, Ms. T, is a 70-year-old woman whose surgical wounds are healing poorly. You happen to visit her during hospital rounds just after she finished breakfast and you notice that she is coughing...
  Consider the following scenario: Your patient, Ms. T, is a 70-year-old woman whose surgical wounds are healing poorly. You happen to visit her during hospital rounds just after she finished breakfast and you notice that she is coughing...
  Consider the following...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention

Feature

Empirical Studies
Health-related Quality of Life and Self-Esteem in Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Results of a Cross-sectional Comparative Study
03/04/2011
Index: Ostomy Wound Management 2011;57(3):36–43. Key Words: cross-sectional comparative study, diabetes mellitus, diabetic foot ulcer, quality of life, self-esteem Abstract   To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and...
Index: Ostomy Wound Management 2011;57(3):36–43. Key Words: cross-sectional comparative study, diabetes mellitus, diabetic foot ulcer, quality of life, self-esteem Abstract   To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and...
Index: Ostomy Wound Management...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
The Use of Pulsed Radio Frequency Energy Therapy in Treating Lower Extremity Wounds: Results of a Retrospective Study of a Wound Registry
03/04/2011
Abstract Pulsed radio frequency energy (PRFE) has been shown to stimulate cultured epidermal cells in vitro, inciting a cascade of cytokines, cyclins, growth factors, and other gene products associated with wound healing. A retrospective,...
Abstract Pulsed radio frequency energy (PRFE) has been shown to stimulate cultured epidermal cells in vitro, inciting a cascade of cytokines, cyclins, growth factors, and other gene products associated with wound healing. A retrospective,...
Abstract Pulsed radio frequency...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Impact of Hypernatremia on Burn Wound Healing: Results of an Exploratory, Retrospective Study
03/04/2011
Abstract Severely burned patients need extensive initial fluid resuscitation. Formulas to calculate fluid needs during burn shock are well established. However, protocols for normalizing circulating fluid volume after cellular integrity has...
Abstract Severely burned patients need extensive initial fluid resuscitation. Formulas to calculate fluid needs during burn shock are well established. However, protocols for normalizing circulating fluid volume after cellular integrity has...
Abstract Severely burned...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Spotlight
Executive Spotlight: Christopher M. Cashman, CEO, SANUWAVE Health, Inc.
03/04/2011
SANUWAVE is an emerging leader in the development and commercialization of noninvasive, biological response activating devices in the regenerative medicine area for the repair and regeneration of tissue, musculoskeletal, and vascular...
SANUWAVE is an emerging leader in the development and commercialization of noninvasive, biological response activating devices in the regenerative medicine area for the repair and regeneration of tissue, musculoskeletal, and vascular...
SANUWAVE is an emerging leader...
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention
Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: Pedaling a Mission
03/04/2011
  Ahhhh, Spring. Crocus. Robins. Bicycles — manned (or should that read woman-ed) by folks raising money for scholarships that can help increase the number of wound, ostomy, continence nurses (WOC Nurses).   Recently, the American Nurses...
  Ahhhh, Spring. Crocus. Robins. Bicycles — manned (or should that read woman-ed) by folks raising money for scholarships that can help increase the number of wound, ostomy, continence nurses (WOC Nurses).   Recently, the American Nurses...
  Ahhhh, Spring. Crocus. Robins....
03/04/2011
Wound Management & Prevention

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Understanding Moisture-associated Skin Damage and Best Practice Recommendations
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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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