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A Comprehensive Solution for Wound Management in Skin Grafting Procedures: Transforming Powder Dressing

Introduction: Skin grafting is critical for treating severe skin defects and chronic wounds1, particularly those resulting from burns, trauma, and infections. Effective strategies in prep...

11/01/2024

Ensuring sustained closure of diabetic foot ulcers using the STRIDE pathway - Initial results from a single center

Introduction: Diabetic foot ulcers have a high recurrence rate, with 42% of patients experiencing relapse within two years due to factors such as neuropathy, arteriopathy, and poor offloa...

11/01/2024

Injection of an Antibiotic-Impregnated Flowable Bone Cement to Treat Osteomyelitis - Description of a Novel Surgical Technique

Introduction: Chronic osteomyelitis, affecting up to 30% of wound cases, is increasing due to diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, and resistant bacteria. It causes significant morbidit...

11/01/2024

Taking a STRIDE to improve wounds through a novel care pathway

Introduction: Over the past decade, wound care has significantly advanced with new materials, technologies, and surgical techniques, though progress has lagged behind fields like surgery ...

11/01/2024

Improvement in Outpatient Wound Clinic Access Through Implementation of an Advanced Practice Provider and Registered Nurse Top of License Initiative

Introduction: Our academic medical center outpatient wound program is led by wound & ostomy certified APRNs with surgeon support as needed, with the clinic staffed by wound & osto...

11/01/2024

Using Near Infra-red Spectroscopy to Assess Oxygenation and Perfusion in Pre-operative Triage of Surgical Procedures

Introduction: Near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive imaging device that can measure oxygenated and de-oxygenated levels of hemoglobin in the wound and periwound tissues to...

11/01/2024

Using Near Infra-red Spectroscopy to Document the Effectiveness of HBOT on an Atypical Scalp Wound.

Introduction: Near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS) has been used to evaluate tissue oxygen saturation and perfusion in a variety of clinical settings including wound care, vascular medicine...

11/01/2024

Silver nanoparticle application in venous leg ulcerations.

Introduction: Venous leg ulcers (VLU) are the most common type of chronic wound accounting for over 70 percent of lower extremity chronic wounds.1-2 Many clinicians describe chronic wound...

11/01/2024

Support Surface Materials and Design Innovation: Preventing Fluid Ingress and Maximizing Investment Returns for Hospitals

Introduction: Fifty percent of acute care support surfaces are compromised within 3.8 years with an increase in failure odds of 67.6% with each additional year of age.1 Compromised surfac...

11/01/2024

Enhancing Wound Care Management with Artificial Intelligence to Automate Tissue Identification

Introduction: Accurate assessment and documentation of wound tissue composition are crucial to monitoring wound healing progress or deterioration. 1 However, clinician evaluation of tissu...

11/01/2024