Volume 49 - Issue 1 - January, 2003

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12/16/2014

Chronic hygiene dermatitis relief product available Care-Tech® Laboratories, Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.) announced the availability of Care-Crème®, an antimicrobial, transdermal cream that relieves redness, irritation, and the chemical burn...

Chronic hygiene dermatitis...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

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OWM Book Review: Review of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing Secrets

12/16/2014

Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing Secrets provides information on the background and modalities often utilized in the management of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing and explains how this information is applied in the clinical...

Wound, Ostomy, and Continence...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

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The Ostomy Files: The Convexity Controversy

12/16/2014

For the past 50 years, convex ostomy pouching systems have been commercially available,1 yet controversy lingers over when and how they should be used. Texts and clinical guidelines discuss the role of convexity but neglect to provide...

For the past 50 years, convex...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

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Addressing the Pain: New Approaches to a Timeless Dilemma

12/16/2014

We all must die. But if I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel is my great and ever privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Pain is a highly...

We all must die. But if I can...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

Department

2003 - New Year, New Problems? New Year, Old Problems?

12/16/2014

Ring out the old and ring in the new. As we look ahead to this brand new year, we cannot help but look back and reflect on the momentous year in healthcare that was 2002 - a year woven with chronic change and controversy, as well as...

Ring out the old and ring in...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

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Empirical Studies

Bacterial Growth Guideline: Reassessing its Clinical Relevance in Wound Healing

12/16/2014

From a microbiological perspective, successful wound healing is dependent on the hosts' ability to maintain control over the micro-organisms that inevitably colonize wound tissue. Since the mid-1960s, research has shown that microbial...

From a microbiological...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

Empirical Studies

A Proposed Method for Quantifying Low-Air-Loss Mattress Performance by Moisture Transport

12/16/2014

Low-air-loss (LAL) mattress systems have been used for the treatment and prevention of pressure ulcers for many years. Pressure ulcer development is related, in part, to the accumulation of heat and perspiration on the skin. Heat and...

Low-air-loss (LAL) mattress...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

Ethics

Beyond Safety and the Nursing Shortage: A Threat to the Heart of Nursing

12/16/2014

Several months ago, at a social gathering of community leaders, an older gentleman was decrying the fact that so many nurses have become real estate agents. These agents, he said, were very efficient, hard working, and knowledgeable. Why...

Several months ago, at a...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

Empirical Studies

No-Rinse, One-Step Bed Bath: The Effects on the Occurrence of Skin Tears in a Long-Term Care Setting

08/27/2014

Sharon Birch, RN, BSN, and Terry Coggins, RN, MSN, CWOCN

Sharon Birch, RN, BSN, and Terry Cogg...

   Skin tears cause pain for the individual and increase the cost of care for residents in long-term care facilities.1 Each year, an estimated 1.5 million skin tears occur among the institutionalized elderly.2 By the year 2030, the...

   Skin tears cause...

08/27/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

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Editorial

Editor`s Opinion: Deja Vu

12/16/2014

You know you have been practicing in the area of wound, skin, incontinence, or ostomy care for some time when you can predict that every review of the literature will contain at least one sentence that reads something like this: "At this...

You know you have been...

12/16/2014

Wound Management & Prevention

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Use of a New Dressing Protocol in Chronic Lower Extremity Wounds on Homebound Patients: A Retrospective Study

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Understanding Moisture-associated Skin Damage and Best Practice Recommendations

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Gelling Fiber Dressings: How Structure and Function Relate to Healing

Biomedical engineer Amit Gefen, BSc, MSc, PhD, discusses dressings in general and gelling dressings in particular from an engineering and clinical use perspective.

The Wound Hygiene Protocol: An Expert Challenge of Complex Wounds

The supplement provides a brief overview of the Wound Hygiene Protocol, developed by ConvaTec, as well as a series of clinical cases presented by experts in their respective fields. These clinical cases challenge the reader to consider how to best approach the reported wound cases.

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