Wound care dressings come in various shapes, sizes and have indications for their use, including collagen wound dressings.
Let’s explore which types of dressings are focused on collagen.
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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 2 degrees Celsius is sufficient enough to affect the biological healing process of your patients. This is because cells and enzymes function optimally only at normal body temperature.
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But hyperbaric oxygen therapy — HBOT for short — is also a go-to therapy routinely used in wound care.
To learn the basics about HBOT, we spoke with wound care experts in the U.S. and abroad.
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One alteration to our daily lives is the practice of avoiding crowds in an effort to slow down the spread and decrease risk of exposure to coronavirus.
So, for everyone’s health and well-being, we’ve moved our popular Wild on Wounds Conference (WOW) to a virtual format this year.
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As you know, one of the purposes of the medical record is to reflect what nursing care was given to the patient. The entries speak to the quality of the care given.
The entries are supplemented by oral testimony at trial of those whose notations are in the medical record. A jury then decides if care was given that meets the standard of care in the situation or if the caregiver failed to meet his or her legal obligation.
The following 2020 legal court decision (Nixon v. The Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Parkshore Health Care, LLC, Four Seasons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, and the New York Community Hospital of Brooklyn, Inc.), illustrates the importance of nursing documentation and potential liability for patient injuries and death.
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Probably more than once. This is a hotly debated issue among wound care clinicians.
In this post, we’ll dissect the facts and provide a clear understanding of how to differentiate the two types of foot wounds.
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The two words are acronyms pertaining to clinical categories related to comprehensive wound assessment, management and wound bed preparation for hard-to-heal wounds, said Donald Wollheim, MD, FAPWCA, WCC, DWC, a board-certified surgeon of the American Board of Surgery and clinical instructor with the Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI).
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It has since proven to be a wonderful resource for all providers who work with ileal conduit patients.
The study began in 2014 with the establishment of a “dedicated team” of ostomy specialists who provided standardized postoperative care.
Its purpose was to undercover the effects of a more involved, systematized program of postoperative care for patients with ileal conduits who were discharged from the hospital.
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Prone positioning is important when patients are experiencing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is a risk for those who have the virus.
Prone therapy is not new, however.
“Critical-care nurses have known for many years that prone positioning patients with ARDS results in lower mortality rates and less incidence of lung injury,” said Kathleen M. Vollman, MSN, RN, CCNS, FCCM, FCNS, FAAN, clinical nurse specialist and consultant at Advancing Nursing, LLC.
Prone therapy was a nursing intervention first used personally by Vollman on an ARDS patient in 1981.
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Knowing how to correctly make those observations and documenting accordingly is critical to a comprehensive assessment. Ultimately, we want a wound with an optimal level of moisture to support healing and not an overly moist or dry environment.
However, as wound care specialists or experts, we need to take it one step further and ask a few more questions.
A good wound care clinician does more than just make observations and note them. They are continually critically thinking and asking “why” and seeking solutions.
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