Patrick Briggs

Wound Assessment Paradigm Shift: A 350-Patient Multi-Site Clinical Trial Incorporating Bacterial Fluorescence Imaging into Standard of Care

Objective: Moderate-to-heavy bacterial loads delay healing and can lead to infection; therefore, clinical evaluation of signs and symptoms (CSS) of the bacterial-infection continuum is im...

Laura Serena ;

Thomas E. Serena , MD, FACS, FACHM, MAPWCA;

Matthew Sabo , DPM;

Lam Le , MD;

Gabriel Halperin ;

Rachel Hamil ;

Khristina Harrell ;

Kerry T. Thibodeaux , MD;

Patrick Briggs ;

Keyur Patel ;

Marc Baer ;

Maria A. Kasper ;

Neal Bullock ;

Windy E. Cole , DPM, CWSP, FACCWS;

Daniel DiMarco ;

Eliabeth Clapp ;

10/25/2019

How Little We Know About Wound Bacterial Burden

Introduction: Wound colonization and infection are often asymptomatic and are therefore grossly under-detected in the chronic wound population. Typically polymicrobial in nature, the vast...