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Debridement

Empowering and Engaging Nurses Through a Nurse-Driven Skin Tear Protocol

January 17, 2019
Holly M. Hovan MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN-AP Payne and Martin brought skin tears to the attention of wound and skin specialists and to the wound care community when they reported an incidence rate ...

Enzymatic Debridement: How Does it Work?

April 30, 2021
Complex and hard-to-heal chronic wounds impact millions of people globally. In the United States, care for these types of wounds exceeds $25 billion annually. Wound healing naturally progresses throug...

Ethics and Wound Care

September 12, 2014
By Bruce E. Ruben MD This particular blog is not necessarily intended to educate, but to be a thinking piece that asks more questions than it answers. ...

Even Medicinal Maggots Carry Warnings

June 20, 2014
By Deboshree Roy, MSC and Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H Most wound care therapists are well acquainted with the benefits of maggot debridement therapy (MDT) by now, but may not be as informed about it...

From Chronic to Acute: Strategies for Preventing Wound Chronicity

February 27, 2020
Wound chronicity is defined as any wound that is physiologically impaired due to a disruption in the wound healing cascade: 1) hemostasis, 2) inflammation, 3) proliferation, and 4) maturation/remodeli...

Gauze Dressings and Wounds: 9 Dos and Don’ts

February 25, 2021
The use of wet-to-dry dressings has been the standard treatment for many wounds for decades. However, this technique is frowned on because it has various disadvantages. In this process, a saline-moist...

How Can Wound Care Nurses Provide Culturally Sensitive Care?

January 22, 2014
By Lindsay D. Andronaco RN, BSN, CWCN, WOC, DAPWCA, FAACWS Cultural sensitivity and awareness is something that as healthcare providers, we say we practice – but do we always practice what we preac...

How Debridement Helps in Managing Chronic Wounds

April 30, 2019
By the WoundSource Editors In chronic wounds, debridement can be used to remove dead and necrotic tissue or to remove foreign material. Debridement has repeatedly been shown to expedite healing and...

How Mental Illness Affects Wound Care and What Are the Solutions

May 13, 2022
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and with the staggering statistics of one in four adults living with mental illness, I immediately was motivated to write a personal blog. I previously shared my s...

Hypergranulation Tissue: What It Is and How to Treat

May 5, 2023
Laura Swoboda, DNP, APNP, FNP-C, FNP-BC, CWOCN-AP, WOCNF The small bright red cobblestone texture of healthy granulation tissue is just that: a granule of new collagen and the new growth of capilla...
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