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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...