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Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS, FACHM, MAPWCA

HBOT: The Office of Inspector General’s Most Wanted?

March 23, 2017
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA In 1950, J. Edgar Hoover published the first edition of the FBI’s most wanted list. Since that time, no less than 512 fugitives have been featured. Many ...

How to Determine If That Cellular and/or Tissue-Based Product Is Worth It

November 20, 2015
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Lawrence Mills introduced the concept of Value Analysis to the manufacturing industry a half century ago. The basic idea entails analyzing the function a...

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: "Where Have All the Chambers Gone?"

February 19, 2015
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Pete Seeger died a year ago last January at the age of 94. Reading a tribute to the folk singer, I ran across his most memorable tune, "Where have all th...

Standardizing Clinical Trial Endpoints in Wound Healing

March 17, 2016
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Recently, I had the pleasure of attending Puccini's opera Turandot at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. In my favorite scene, young prince Calef comes...

Surgical Site Infections: Frequently Asked Questions

December 11, 2019
By Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS Conceived in the operating theater and born in the home, surgical site infections (SSIs) reach maturity in the outpatient wound clinic. The woundologist, whether surgi...

The Evolution of Wound Care and Woundology

February 10, 2016
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA In 1972, Stephen J. Gould, the renowned paleontologist and masterful essayist, published the theory of punctuated equilibrium in which he challenged the ...

Wound Care Clinical Trials: Setting the Record Straight

August 22, 2017
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA A recent article by Kaiser Health News misquoted me as saying that we enroll only "healthy" patients in our clinical trials. At moments like this, one fe...
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