Biofilm

Learn terms related to integral debridement to help guide your learning.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

For clinicians across acute, post-acute, and community settings, few topics in wound care create more uncertainty than biofilm. In this blog, we debunk common myths with current evidence and offer pra...

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...

When a wound becomes chronic after the clinician(s) has addressed underlying conditions, biofilm is often suspected. Biofilm complicates the detection and treatment of what otherwise might be manageab...

Biofilm is a common complication found in hard-to-heal wounds. In this blog, learn the stages of biofilm formation and what this means for wound healing....