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Important Terms to Know: Integral Debridement

May 7, 2025
Learn terms related to integral debridement to help guide your learning.

A Different Look at Key Wound Hygiene Terminology

December 31, 2022
The concept of wound hygiene has grown traction recently as clinicians increasingly adopt an antibiofilm-oriented approach to wound care. Despite the increase in recognition of wound hygiene as a four...

Advanced Therapies for Wound Management: The Role of Collagen

February 27, 2020
Wound chronicity is an ongoing challenge for patients and health care professionals around the globe. An astonishing 4.5 million people in the United States experience lower extremity wound chronicity...

Antibacterial Properties of Bioactive Compounds in Chronic Wounds

February 6, 2025
A recent study assessed the effects of 4 different bioactive wound healing materials against 3 prevalent bacterial pathogens associated with chronic wounds to identify potentially optimal wound dressi...

Antibiotic Alternatives: Wound Dressing Technologies

March 31, 2021
Wound healing is often accompanied by bacterial infection. Many clinicians use antibiotics to treat wound infections. However, the overreliance on antibiotics is becoming an increasing concern for man...

Beauty and Biofilm: The Intersection of Science, Art, and Wound Care

January 19, 2017
By Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF, CWS-P You are looking at an amazing image of a dime-sized biofilm of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, grown and photographed by Scott Chimileski – a biologist, photographer, a...

Biofilm and Wound Healing

January 1, 2018
by the WoundSource Editors Biofilm is a complex microbial community containing self- and surface-attached microorganisms that are embedded in an extracellular polymeric substance.1,2 The extracellu...

Biofilm Battles: Managing Chronic Infections

July 18, 2019
By the WoundSource Editors Biofilm: this term is frequently used in the wound care space, but biofilm continues to be largely undertreated in wound care. What do the bedside nurse or clinician need...

Biofilm Investigation: What Is Under the Microscope?

January 1, 2018
by the WoundSource Editors Have you ever had plaque buildup on your teeth, seen a thin clear film on the top of your pet's water bowl, or stepped into a locker room shower where the floor felt slic...

Biofilm Versus Infection: How Interventions Differ

December 21, 2023
In this interview, Emily Greenstein, APRN discusses the ways how biofilm and infection differ, including what they are, how management practices vary, and which wound bed preparation factors are the m...
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