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PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Diabetic Foot Ulcer Management
03/01/2010
     In a practice setting with a high incidence of diabetes and diabetic foot ulcers, patients often have numerous comorbidities. Utilizing best practice guidelines and building on our experience with our patient population, we use a...
     In a practice setting with a high incidence of diabetes and diabetic foot ulcers, patients often have numerous comorbidities. Utilizing best practice guidelines and building on our experience with our patient population, we use a...
     In a practice setting with...
03/01/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
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Pearls for Practice: Managing Skin Grafts and Donor Sites
02/01/2010
     Skin grafts are frequently used over large and/or difficult-to-heal wounds such as burns, pressure ulcers, venous ulcers, diabetic ulcers, and traumatic wounds. They can be created and applied in various ways. The split-thickness skin...
     Skin grafts are frequently used over large and/or difficult-to-heal wounds such as burns, pressure ulcers, venous ulcers, diabetic ulcers, and traumatic wounds. They can be created and applied in various ways. The split-thickness skin...
     Skin grafts are frequently...
02/01/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Collaboration in the Care of Wounds
01/01/2010
     As a fairly new certified wound ostomy continence nurse (WOCN), I have learned that all of the healthcare professionals involved in a case must cooperate in order to provide effective wound care to a patient.      I see wound care...
     As a fairly new certified wound ostomy continence nurse (WOCN), I have learned that all of the healthcare professionals involved in a case must cooperate in order to provide effective wound care to a patient.      I see wound care...
     As a fairly new certified...
01/01/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Management of the Excised Pilonidal Wound
12/01/2009
     Pilonidal disease is acute and chronic, affects young men three times more frequently than women, and is believed to be caused by ingrown hairs that stimulate an inflammatory and granulomatous process. In our clinic, most patients with...
     Pilonidal disease is acute and chronic, affects young men three times more frequently than women, and is believed to be caused by ingrown hairs that stimulate an inflammatory and granulomatous process. In our clinic, most patients with...
     Pilonidal disease is acute...
12/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Dilemmas of Dehiscence
11/01/2009
     Dehisced surgical wounds often create dilemmas for clinicians. Many factors can affect whether a surgical wound may dehisce. Some factors that determine wound closure success are nutrition, comorbidities, edema, smoking, and...
     Dehisced surgical wounds often create dilemmas for clinicians. Many factors can affect whether a surgical wound may dehisce. Some factors that determine wound closure success are nutrition, comorbidities, edema, smoking, and...
     Dehisced surgical wounds...
11/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Managing Wounds with Exposed Tendon
10/15/2009
     Tendons are anatomical structures that connect bone to muscle. They are composed of parallel bundles of collagen fiber1 and often appear as striated white or creamy yellow structures in wound beds.      Tendons are nourished by blood...
     Tendons are anatomical structures that connect bone to muscle. They are composed of parallel bundles of collagen fiber1 and often appear as striated white or creamy yellow structures in wound beds.      Tendons are nourished by blood...
     Tendons are anatomical...
10/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Stage I Pressure Ulcers: Catching Pressure Injury before Skin Breakdown
09/15/2009
     The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) published updated definitions of pressure ulcers in February 2007. These definitions were followed in October 1, 2008 by the “Present on Admission” (POA) focus of Centers for Medicare...
     The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) published updated definitions of pressure ulcers in February 2007. These definitions were followed in October 1, 2008 by the “Present on Admission” (POA) focus of Centers for Medicare...
     The National Pressure Ulcer...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Treating Stage III Pressure Ulcers
08/01/2009
     The most important approach in managing Stage III pressure ulcers is a complete assessment of total patient needs. Assessment usually includes wound type, location, measurement, and duration; nutrition; mobility; mental status; social...
     The most important approach in managing Stage III pressure ulcers is a complete assessment of total patient needs. Assessment usually includes wound type, location, measurement, and duration; nutrition; mobility; mental status; social...
     The most important approach...
08/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Optimizing Pressure Ulcer Care: A Checklist for System Change
06/01/2009
     Our healthcare system sought to enrich and improve strategies to assess, document, and prevent pressure ulcers and to identify key personnel to implement these strategies. An evaluation of our practices yielded the following...
     Our healthcare system sought to enrich and improve strategies to assess, document, and prevent pressure ulcers and to identify key personnel to implement these strategies. An evaluation of our practices yielded the following...
     Our healthcare system...
06/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
Pearls for Practice: Appropriate Dressings for the Nonprofessional Caregiver
05/01/2009
     The role of wound care professionals is changing worldwide. This is especially true when delivering care in community and long-term care settings, where much of wound care now is provided. At one time, the wound care professional’s...
     The role of wound care professionals is changing worldwide. This is especially true when delivering care in community and long-term care settings, where much of wound care now is provided. At one time, the wound care professional’s...
     The role of wound care...
05/01/2009
Wound Management & Prevention

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Use of a New Dressing Protocol in Chronic Lower Extremity Wounds on Homebound Patients: A Retrospective Study
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.
Understanding Moisture-associated Skin Damage and Best Practice Recommendations
Special Report on MASD written by Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP, MAPWCA; Siobhan McCoulough, CNS; and Patricia Idensohn, CNS.
Gelling Fiber Dressings: How Structure and Function Relate to Healing
Biomedical engineer Amit Gefen, BSc, MSc, PhD, discusses dressings in general and gelling dressings in particular from an engineering and clinical use perspective.
The Wound Hygiene Protocol: An Expert Challenge of Complex Wounds
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. 

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