diabetic foot ulcer

Let's Be Frank

Charting A Path to Learning Through An Algorithm

04/09/2019

Frank Aviles Jr., PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT

Frank Aviles Jr., PT, CWS, FACCWS, CL...

If you are reading this column at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring 2019 conference in San Antonio, Texas, then I am proud to say that I have your attention during one of the most recognized and respected wound care events....

If you are reading this column...

04/09/2019

Today's Wound Clinic

Abstracts

SAWC Spring 2019 Poster Abstracts

04/01/2019

Wounds Editorial Staff

04/01/2019

Wounds

Case Series

Use of Remote Ischemic Conditioning on the Treatment of Diabetic Wounds

03/28/2019

Introduction. Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) activates the body’s natural protective physiology against reperfusion injury and the tissue damage caused by low oxygen levels. More than 10 000 patients have completed trials with RIC over...

Introduction. Remote ischemic...

03/28/2019

Wounds

Clinical Experience Using a dACM Construct for the Management of Wounds

03/27/2019

Wounds

Health Economics

A Cost Analysis of Two Skin Substitutes for Treatment of Large Diabetic Foot Ulcers With Exposed Bone or Tendon

03/25/2019

Introduction. Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) with exposed bone or tendon can be difficult to heal. These recalcitrant wounds can create an economic burden because they often require multiple treatment applications. New research is needed to...

Introduction. Diabetic foot...

03/25/2019

Wounds

Treatment of a Series of Diabetic Foot Ulcers with Hydrated Shelf Stable Umbilical Cord Allograft

Background: Processing methods are integral to the success of any therapeutic tissue product and can alter the composition of key signaling molecules and maintenance of cells within ...

02/09/2019

Cost Savings by Combining Advanced Moisture Management Foam Dressings and Total Contact Casts

Background: Offloading diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) with a total contact cast (TCC) is the established standard of care for fast wound healing times. When patients with DFUs have copio...

02/09/2019

Let's Be Frank

Throw Everything at Diabetes … But Don’t Throw in the Towel

02/08/2019

Frank Aviles Jr., PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT-LANA, ALM, AWCC, DAPWCA

Our most challenging patients, clinically speaking, may also push us to the limit in other ways. It’s up to wound care clinicians to not quit on them.

Our most challenging patients,...

02/08/2019

Today's Wound Clinic

Evidence Corner

Exercise and Chronic Wound Healing

02/01/2019

Laura Bolton

This month’s Evidence Corner examines 2 recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) testing the effects of foot exercises that activate calf muscles on chronic VLUs and DFUs.

This month’s Evidence Corner...

02/01/2019

Wounds

Original Research

Stability, Activity, and Application of Topical Doxycycline Formulations in a Diabetic Wound Case Study

02/01/2019

Simona Gabriele

Beth Buchanan

Azoy Kundu

Heather C. Dwyer

Joseph P. Gabriele

Perry Mayer

David Charles Baranowski

This study aims to develop a liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry doxycycline quantification methodology to facilitate the development of a stable topical doxycycline hyclate (DOXY) formulation as well as evaluate the topical DOXY...

This study aims to develop a...

02/01/2019

Wounds