WCEI Brings You A New Segment Called PRODUCT FOCUS Our objective is to provide ongoing education and resources to our wound care clinicians worldwide. Product Focus: Collagen Dressing Description: Freeze dried sheets of collagen, particles, pastes or gels usually derived from cow hides – they encourage the deposition and organization of newly formed collagen fibers…
Category Archives: Wound Management
What factors do you face when it comes to ensuring adequate support for your patients?
Wound development has many different etiologies. Diabetes, arteriosclerosis, venous insufficiency, trauma and a host of others come to mind. Treatment of these wounds may be similar in approach and others may be completely different. One thing that is common in treatment of wounds is adequate support for the underlying structures near and under the wounds….
WOUND CARE CERTIFICATION
Our Skin and Wound Management Course is designed to provide participants with the best practices in wound care, the science behind healing wounds, and the most current standards of practice. At the end of the course, for those that pursue wound certification the National Alliance of Wound Care® provides the WCC® exam. The Advantages of…
Temperature Effects on Wound Healing
As you may know, the loss of moisture from any surface by evaporation is accompanied by cooling of the surface. Therefore as wound tissues lose moisture a cooling effect occurs in the wound. Cells and enzymes function optimally at normal body temperature. A temperature drop of just 2 degrees C is sufficient enough to affect…
WCEI's Donna Sardina RN, to discuss Wound Care on McKnight's Online Expo
Wound Care Education Institute’s own Donna Sardina RN will be discussing Wound Care issues and LTC Regulations on McKnights LTC Magazine Online Tradeshow-LIVE online on March 25th. Lets show our support by attending this online Expo. This Expo is FREE. Here is the link to sign up. McKnight’s Online Expo Tweet
