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In an acute care facility the challenges faced by a bariatric patient raise awareness of the need to develop a protocol ensuring quality care that begins on admission and continues to dis...
02/01/2021
Management of large open wounds is a significant problem for clinicians. The use of traditional NPWT has been shown to be safe and effective1. In patients with more than one wound using a...
01/28/2021
A skin tear is described as a “ traumatic wound caused by mechanical forces, including removal of adhesives. Severity may vary by depth (LeBlanc et al, 2018)." Skin tears are a frequ...
01/28/2021
Biofilm and the bacterial burden have been recognized as impediments to wound progression. The use of negative pressure wound therapy with instillation and dwell time (NPWTi-d) has gained...
01/28/2021
Necrotizing infection carries a high mortality.1 If the patient survives, they typically have undergone multiple surgical debridements to assist in clearing the infection and necrotic tis...
01/28/2021
This is a single centre, pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) in patients with a DFU, with blinded outcome assessment.  Patients were randomised in a 1:1 allocation ratio to either tre...
01/28/2021
10-54% of long term care (LTC) facility patients have a chronic wound1. Often, infections develop in these wounds due to delays in detection of high bacterial loads. Delays are attributed...
01/28/2021
INTRODUCTION  Repositioning documentation serves an important function for pressure injury root cause analysis[i], managing pressure injury (PrI) prevention programs and for litigation de...
01/28/2021
Surgical reconstruction of chronic wounds using soft tissue flaps is a routine approach to achieve closure. Due to the poor tissue quality,  longstanding inflammation, bioburden and impai...
01/28/2021
Negative pressure wound therapy with instillation and dwell time (NPWTi-d*), which provides wound cleansing to help remove debris, infectious materials, and exudate, has been reported to ...
01/28/2021