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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
INTRODUCTION
Repositioning documentation serves an important function for pressure injury root cause analysis[i], managing pressure injury (PrI) prevention programs and for litigation de...
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...
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 ...