Atypical and Complex Wounds

By Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Journal Review Club Editor's note: This post is part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine (TUSPM) journal review club blog series....

Barbara Pieper, PhD, CNS-BC, CWOCN, FAAN, WOCNF shared that drug abuse or addiction affects millions of individuals each year in the United States. In 2019, 20.4 million people met the criteria for a ...

Editor's Note: What are the first steps to treating a skin tear? In this interview, Emily Greenstein, APRN, CNP, CWON-AP, FACCWS describes some best practices for skin tear management, such as marking...

The literature suggests that patients with a high degree of adiposity are more at risk for inflammatory conditions, and the numbers of these patients continue to rise. Increased adipose tissue may imp...

Angiogenesis: The complex process in which the growth of normal, stable, and functional vessels is critically dependent on the coordinated interplay in space and time of different cell types and growt...

By the WoundSource Editors COVID-19: The name of the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The abbreviation COVID-19 is short for coronavirus disease 2...

By Mary Ellen Posthauer RDN, CD, LD, FAND During the past year, I have had the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Steven Gale and a group of wound care specialists on the development of a standard...

Join Dr. Caroline Fife at WoundCon Fall 2021 for her talk on the angisome concept and how it applies to pressure injury development....

By Martin D. Vera LVN, CWS As we move forward in our continuation of lower extremity wounds, we will now turn our attention to arterial wounds. In my previous post, we discussed challenges with ven...

Christine Miller, DPM, DMM, PhD, FACCWS One of the most difficult aspects of patient care is dealing with non-compliance. How do we help those who refuse to help themselves? This question is very c...