Wound Care Professional

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,...

Understanding the mechanisms of spontaneous and skin-grafted wound repair: the path to engineered skin grafts

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...

Compression therapy in peripheral artery disease: a literature review

A scoping literature review on PubMed was conducted between January–May 2021 with combinations of the following key terms: ‘compression therapy’; ‘peripheral artery disease’; ‘critical limb...

Empowering patient self-management through tailored compression garment regimens

The management of lymphoedema is based around the four treatment components of skin care, exercise, lymphatic drainage (massage) and compression. Compression promotes drainage of lymph by increasing...

Compression wrap impregnated with paste (Unna boot)

Lymphedema

Stage O: latency stage. A subclinical state where swelling is not evident despite impaired lymph transport. Reversible.

Use of multilayer silicone foam dressings as adjuvant therapy to prevent pressure injuries

This consensual expert opinion was drawn up using two methods: the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) and the Delphi process,17–19 and conducted according to a written protocol..

Antimicrobial stewardship strategies in wound care: evidence to support the use of dialkylcarbamoyl chloride (DACC)-coated wound dressings

Medline, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Google Scholar were searched for relevant articles regarding the use of wound dressings and AMS in wound care, published between January 1970 and...

Wound Dressings