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Chronic Wounds

11 Comorbidities That Inhibit Wound Healing

August 13, 2014
By Bruce E. Ruben MD In order to heal a wound, the body needs oxygen, nutrients, energy and a fully functioning vascular system that brings those resources to the wound and takes waste products awa...

3 Common Patient Challenges Associated with Pressure Ulcers/Injuries

November 1, 2017
By the WoundSource Editors Nurses and other health care professionals providing care to patients regularly face challenges that can make it more difficult to perform routine tasks and ensure patien...

3 Micronutrients to Help with Wound Healing

January 21, 2021
By Lauren Lazarevski, RN, BSN, CWOCN Could metallic micronutrients be the missing link for your patient with a chronic wound? When we consider the nutrition required to optimize wound healing, prot...

A New Model for Home Health Agencies: Why Not Wounds?

December 27, 2012
by Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN At the start of December, I was looking at graduation from my Master's Degree program and the completion of my final paper. A capstone to the Master's program is muc...

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...

Advanced Wound Care Interventions for Non-Healing Wounds

February 28, 2021
Chronic and non-healing wounds are those that do not progress through the healing process in a timely or predicted manner. They are a global problem and are becoming harder to treat. Medicare estimate...

Atypical Wounds: Causes and Management (Part 1)

February 8, 2018
By Martin D. Vera LVN, CWS As devoted clinicians to the field of wound management we take a responsibility to educate ourselves and others about wound etiologies and characteristics, as well as man...

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...

Breaking the Biofilm Cycle: Strategies for Evaluating and Managing Wound Bioburden

December 31, 2018
by the WoundSource Editors Advancements in molecular microbiology, microscopy technology, and techniques for study of bacteria have increased the ability to identify the existence of biofilms, but ...
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