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Pressure Ulcers

Important Terms to Know: Pressure Injury Prevention

October 27, 2023
Alternating pressure: In support surfaces, pressure redistribution with cyclic changes. Avoidable pressure injury: The development of a new pressure injury or the worsening of an existing one that ...

Improving Outcomes Through Wound Care Staff Education

April 13, 2017
By Holly Hovan MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWON-AP As a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse in long-term care, education is a huge part of my role working in our Community Living Center (CLC), Hospice, and...

Inadequate Nutrition and Wound Healing

January 7, 2016
By Mary Ellen Posthauer RDN, CD, LD, FAND Congratulations to Bruce Ruben, MD, for his #1 WoundSource blog for 2015; Wound Healing: Reasons Wounds Will Not Heal. I certainly concur with Dr. Ruben th...

Infection Management: Frequently Asked Questions

August 20, 2020
By Thomas E. Serena, MD, and Khristina Harrell, RN With apologies to Nietzsche: "What kills you makes you dead." The slow painful death of large and expensive in-person conferences has begun. Techn...

Inflammation, Nutrition and Unavoidable Pressure Ulcers: Are They Related?

August 13, 2014
By Mary Ellen Posthauer RDN, CD, LD, FAND In 2010, experts at a consensus conference convened by the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP):...

Is This Wound Chronic?

March 29, 2019
by the WoundSource Editors Chronic wounds affect over 6.5 million people annually in the United States, with a total cost of over $26.8 billion per year. Proper identification of chronic wounds is ...

Is Understaffing Really the Main Cause of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers?

June 25, 2014
By Lindsay D. Andronaco RN, BSN, CWCN, WOC, DAPWCA, FAACWS Is your facility taking hospital-acquired pressure ulcers, or HAPUs, seriously? This has become a hot button issue for CMS over the last f...

Kennedy Terminal Ulcer/Palliative Care and Hospice Care

October 31, 2018
by the WoundSource Editors Palliative care and hospice care are not the same, but they both share one goal. They both focus on a patient's physical, mental, social, and spiritual needs. Palliative ...
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