October 28, 2022
As a wound care clinician, assisting your clinical team in correctly diagnosing and treating the type of wound your patient has will help connect the missing pieces of the puzzle and have your patient on their way to healing.
September 23, 2022
A colleague of mine once stated there are basically two fundamentals to healing wounds: a healthy patient and a healthy wound environment. Once those are accomplished, topical treatments will not make that big of a difference.
July 7, 2022
The pandemic has brought skin and wound care challenges, including compromising the skin, which can lead to wounds that are harder to heal.
December 11, 2021
Two experts talk about the intricacies of treating pediatric burns and how patients' families must carry on treatment after discharge.
November 8, 2021
A malignant wound is a manifestation of malignant cells that have infiltrated through the skin. We explore how they are treated.
August 4, 2021
To help you grow in your wound care skills, we review wound physiology and the clinicians’ role during each of the stages of wound healing.
July 13, 2021
Say the wound you are working on is not healing. What is affecting the healing process? Learn about the factors that delay wound healing.
September 2, 2020
A patient’s core body temperature must be above 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit and below 107.6 for wound healing to occur. The loss of moisture from any surface by evaporation is accompanied by cooling of the surface. So, as wound tissues lose moisture, a cooling effect occurs resulting in lower wound temperature. Even a decrease of only […]
July 1, 2020
A discussion of how to determine the state of a wound and the care it needs by examining the wound exudate.
May 13, 2020
The age-old treatments of maggot debridement therapy and leech therapy are relatively inexpensive and fairly effective wound care. Learn why in this blog.