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Wound Care

Background: Throughout the world, use of telemedicine in chronic wound management has been associated with lower cost of care, shorter healing time, fewer foot amputations, and fewer offi...
12/03/2019
Given that wounds present coalescing drivers of cost, including common medical etiologies, high complication rates, and high treatment costs, it would seem self-evident that any technolog...
12/02/2019
An estimated 2.6% of Americans over the age of 13 have injected illicit drugs. Chronic drug use is associated with endovascular infections, endocarditis, abscesses, limb ischemia, celluli...
11/27/2019
Pressure injuries are increasingly prevalent, with approximately 2.5 million treated in the United States annually. The estimated annual cost is $9.1–11.6 billion. Many pressure injuries ...
11/21/2019
Introduction: In the outpatient, wound care center setting, it is not uncommon for patients to present with malleolar pressure injuries. While there are many devices to assist in offloadi...
11/04/2019
Introduction: Millions of patients in the US suffer from painful, draining ulcers of the leg. These ulcers are a result of chronic venous insufficiency. These venous leg ulcers (VLUs) typ...
06/10/2019
Background: Use of pressure offloading support surfaces is considered standard of care for pressure ulcers by most surgeons.  The Fluid Immersion Simulation System (FIS)(Dolphin...
06/10/2019
Purpose: This prospective, randomized controlled trial was to compare a viscoelastic foam overlay (VEFO) to a standard hospital mattress for pressure injury (PI) prevention. We also ...
06/10/2019
Background: Pressure ulcer/injuries have always been a concern in healthcare, but have become a greater priority since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services introduced prospec...
06/10/2019
Background: The treatment of chronic venous ulcers continues to be a challenge.  Appropriate compression therapy is the gold standard for treatment of these problems but managin...
06/10/2019