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...
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...
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..
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...
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.
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,...
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...
Literature reviews and meta-analyses of global pressure injury prevalence and incidence.
Spontaneous wound repair in surgical or acute wounds is achieved by a complex and dynamic process which can be described in the overlapping phases of platelet haemostasis, inflammation, proliferation...
The statistics for illicit drug use by nurses are difficult to predict accurately because of under-reporting. However, various research sources demonstrate a progressive and rising trend in the covert...
Nancy and her dedicated team collaborated with clinicians from Philadelphia and neighboring areas to serve the Kensington community.