Martin D. Vera, LVN, CWS
Coordinator of Wound Care at Patience Home Health
Faculty/Consultant at Chronic Wound Solutions of TX
Independent Contractor in Wound Care - Texas Center of Infectious Disease (TCID)
Martin Vera has been a LVN for 19 years, a CWS for the past 10 years, and is passionate about wound management. As a new nurse, Vera experience working in a LTC facility that was premiere in wound care, and saw first hand the involvement of the SWAT team, using advanced wound care products, support surfaces, turning schedules, special diets and how with this coordination positive outcomes were achieved. Vera has experience in wound management in different settings, including: long term (ADON - wound care), acute settings (med surg/telemetry/SNF), LTACH (coordinator of wound care), post acute and consulting involving hospice patients, and working with TB related wounds.
By Martin Vera, LVN, CWS
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data tracker, in the United States alone, effective the second week of March 2022, the death toll is just over 963,000—many lives have been lost to this pandemic. In lay terms, the AT&T...
By Martin Vera, LVN, CWS
Throughout my career I have been lucky enough to be part of several nursing branches: home health, long-term care, acute care, long-term acute care hospital, hospice, and even a tuberculosis hospital; wounds have no limitations on where they will appear...
By Martin Vera, LVN, CWS
Part 2 in a series discussing the etiology, assessment and management of atypical wounds. Read Part 1 here.
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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 management of barriers to achieve positive outcomes. We spend a great deal of our...
By Martin D. Vera LVN, CWS
What is a chronic wound? What changes must happen within a wound for clinicians to classify it as "chronic"? Is there a time frame for healing chronic wounds? And what should we clinicians do to prevent and/or reverse chronic wounds? These are all great...
By Martin D. Vera LVN, CWS
In this last of our three-part series on lower extremity wounds, we will focus our attention on diabetic foot/neuropathic ulcers. Research indicates that the United States national average for diabetes mellitus (DM) accounts for a little over 8% of the...
By Martin D. Vera LVN, CWS
As we move forward in our continuation of lower extremity wounds, we will now turn our attention to arterial wounds. In my previous post, we discussed challenges with venous leg ulcers. Lower extremity wounds continue to challenge clinicians on a daily...
By Martin D. Vera, LVN, CWS
Wound clinicians across the nation (and the world) are commonly faced with the difficult task of managing lower extremity wounds. Lower extremity wounds come in many different forms. We are not faced with a generic type, but several—in fact, we never...
By Martin D. Vera, LVN, CWS
We hear this all too often, but it is so true: it takes a village to heal a wound. A village that's on the same page, with a thorough understanding of gaining progress and obtaining positive outcomes for the patient and removing the barriers to wound...
By Martin D. Vera, LVN, CWS
It is no surprise to coworkers, colleagues and even my patients that I am a huge advocate for education and of course, the building of a strong foundation. My personal experience has been that after I had built that strong foundation—as in,...
By Martin D. Vera, LVN, CWS
On our last encounter we discussed wound bed preparation and the TIME framework. What I wish to accomplish with this post is to make it easier to understand the skin, the changes it undergoes as we age, and pave the way for the phases of wound healing—...
By Martin D. Vera, LVN, CWS
Wound bed preparation has become the gold standard model for proper wound assessment. It allows us clinicians to identify and breakdown local barriers to wound healing. Throughout our health care careers, we have seen it over and over again: the...