Factors influencing dressing choice in wound care: a discussion

Wound assessment is a prerequisite for selecting an appropriate dressing.

Edge trenching: a case study of a novel debridement technique

The wound with vertical edges where line ‘a’ is the depth, line ‘c’ is the typically resected edge at 45°, and line ‘b’ is the projected extension of the wound edge after resection at 45° (a). The...

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Research Roundup

Journal of Wound Care: Comparing methods of debridement for removing biofilm in hard-to-heal wounds. .

Comparing methods of debridement for removing biofilm

Hard-to-heal wounds are wounds that fail to heal with standard therapy in an orderly and timely manner.7 This term—synonymous with chronic, non-healing or recalcitrant wounds or failure to heal—can...

Acute and chronic wound infections: microbiological, immunological, clinical and therapeutic distinctions

Wound infection is a host inflammatory response to interfering microorganisms that either directly or indirectly damage viable host tissue, hence preventing wound healing. This differs from previous...

Timeline review of wound bed preparation and TIME/TIMERS

Implementing TIMERS: the race against hard-to-heal wounds

This 52 page consensus document is difficult to summarize in 500 words. The goal of this summary is to highlight key points and changes to concepts well known to the wound management community..

Embracing innovation and advancements in wound care

This year has been marked by extraordinary advancements, which promise to revolutionize patient care. The field has seen significant strides, from fresh business approaches to groundbreaking...

Research Roundup

Journal of Wound Care: Development, dissemination, and evaluation of a smartphone-based app for pressure ulcer/injury prevention and treatment for use at the bedside.

Dressings for preventing pressure ulcers: how do they work?

Among the aetiologic factors that cause PU development, tissue ischaemia, with or without reperfusion damage, and cellular deformation caused by mechanical loading, are widely accepted. Furthermore,...

Can teledermatology meet the needs of the remote and rural population?

In 2018, the Cochrane database of systematic reviews analysed 22 studies with this sole objective: ‘to determine the diagnostic accuracy of teledermatology for the detection of any skin cancer in...