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Wound Healing

The Complexity of Wound Care Compliance: A Patient Case Study

May 2, 2019
Christine Miller, DPM, DMM, PhD, FACCWS One of the most difficult aspects of patient care is dealing with non-compliance. How do we help those who refuse to help themselves? This question is very c...

The Difference Between Acute and Chronic Wounds

March 19, 2015
By Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWOCN, CWS, FACCWS Do you understand the difference between acute and chronic wounds? If you answered that acute wounds are wounds that have been present for a shorter dur...

The Four Stages of Wound Healing

April 28, 2016
By the WoundSource Editors The stages of wound healing proceed in an organized way and follow four processes: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation and maturation. Although the stages of wound he...

The Future of Bioactive Wound Care Dressings

April 12, 2016
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC The growing market for bioactive wound care products has been very interesting and exciting to me. I have been involved the past couple years ...

The Heart and Wound Healing: Cardiovascular Disorders and Healthy Lifestyle Habits

February 20, 2019
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, CWCP, DAPWCA, FACCWS, CLTC – Wound Educator With the millions of people living with chronic wounds, there are also millions of people living with cardiovascular di...

The Plight of the Traveling Wound Care Nurse

October 17, 2013
By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN There is a traveler coming to your hospital who will only be working for 13 weeks, eight weeks or however long the facility needs that nurse. As a nurse working in t...

The Power of Laughter Can Help Heal All Wounds

July 30, 2014
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC I have been referred to as the "crazy wound nurse" by many of my co-workers and patients throughout the years. I've been known to dance, sing,...

The Role of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Healing Wounds

February 19, 2016
By Bruce E. Ruben MD Little has been shown by specific randomized controlled trials to effectively speed the healing of a non-healing wound. Biologically, the human body is capable of healing once ...

The Skin Microbiome: Factors Related to Wound Chronicity

December 31, 2018
by the WoundSource Editors The human skin microbiome is incredibly diverse and can contain up to one billion microorganisms on a single square centimeter, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and a...
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