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.
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.
Value-based purchasing is a recent initiative by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to incentivize value over volume in health care purchasing.
The objective of this study was to determine the ability of two NPWT systems—System A (Invia Liberty; Medela AG) and System B (RENASYS TOUCH; Smith+Nephew)—to deliver a set level of negative pressure when the device was positioned at different heights in relation to the wound bed and during a simulated fluid bolus. This supplement was not subject to the Wounds peer-review process.
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Presented by: Luis G. Fernández, MD, KHS, KCOEG, FACS, FASAS, FCCP, FCCM, FICS; Paul J. Kim, DPM, MS, FACFAS; and Saeed A. Chowdhry, MD, FACS.
It is known in the literature about the clinical and economic benefits of instillation therapy, ranging from reductions in hospital stays to fe...