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Wound Exudate: Assessment and Management Strategies

July 27, 2016
By Lindsay D. Andronaco RN, BSN, CWCN, WOC, DAPWCA, FAACWS Wound exudate and how to properly assess and manage it has been a long standing clinical challenge in wound care. Assessing the exudate co...

Are You a Wound Care Detective?

January 7, 2021
By: Emily Greenstein, APRN, CNP, CWON, FACCWS Being a wound care professional is often a lot like being a detective. You have to decide what caused the wound, what is contributing to its not healin...

Are You a Wound Care Detective? Case 1

January 27, 2021
By Emily Greenstein, APRN, CNP, CWON, FACCWS Last month I introduced you to the concept of how being a wound care professional is often a lot like being a detective. This blog post is going to star...

Assessing Wound Tissue and Drainage Types: Slough Versus Purulence

February 18, 2021
By Holly M. Hovan, MSN, GERO-BC, APRN, CWOCN-AP Wound assessment is one of the initial steps in determining the plan of care, changes in treatment, and the choice of key players in wound management...

Clearing The Air About Moist Vs. Dry Wound Healing

October 8, 2014
By Bruce E. Ruben MD In the beginning, long before Johnson met Johnson and Band-Aids were invented, primitive men and women suffered minor cuts and abrasions and probably left them uncovered to hea...

Comparing Alginate and Gelling Fiber Dressings

August 3, 2017
By Holly Hovan MSN, APRN, CWOCN-AP As wound care clinicians, we are aware that part of the process of consulting requires a comprehensive wound assessment, looking at wound characteristics, causati...

Debridement: Why Is It So Important?

April 30, 2022
Effective wound management often requires attending to multiple aspects of the wound itself, including properly preparing the wound bed and managing moisture and exudate, among other facets of wound c...
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