Volume 55 - Issue 9 - September, 2009
Column
Guest Editorial
09/15/2009
The Kennedy Terminal Ulcer (KTU) is a pressure ulcer that some individuals get as they are dying. Not all patients who die with a pressure ulcer die with a KTU; a KTU is in a subset of pressure ulcers that have certain characteristics....
The Kennedy Terminal Ulcer (KTU) is a pressure ulcer that some individuals get as they are dying. Not all patients who die with a pressure ulcer die with a KTU; a KTU is in a subset of pressure ulcers that have certain characteristics....
The Kennedy Terminal Ulcer...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Executive Spotlight
09/15/2009
When he was 18 years old, Michael Steadman was a firefighter in the suburbs of Chicago. It was during these early years of adulthood that an interest in wound care was established. “I saw plenty of burns as well as trauma-related...
When he was 18 years old, Michael Steadman was a firefighter in the suburbs of Chicago. It was during these early years of adulthood that an interest in wound care was established. “I saw plenty of burns as well as trauma-related...
When he was 18 years old,...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
09/15/2009
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) published updated definitions of pressure ulcers in February 2007. These definitions were followed in October 1, 2008 by the “Present on Admission” (POA) focus of Centers for Medicare...
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) published updated definitions of pressure ulcers in February 2007. These definitions were followed in October 1, 2008 by the “Present on Admission” (POA) focus of Centers for Medicare...
The National Pressure Ulcer...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
09/15/2009
Most people hope for a respectful, peaceful death, one where they just slip away into the night. Unfortunately for many patients and their families, the end of life is not a single instant but rather a long complicated period fraught...
Most people hope for a respectful, peaceful death, one where they just slip away into the night. Unfortunately for many patients and their families, the end of life is not a single instant but rather a long complicated period fraught...
Most people hope for a...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
09/15/2009
Joseph Fletcher, long considered a pioneer and leader in the field of bioethics, argued that people have dignity only if they are able to choose when, how, and why they are to live or to die. Fletcher1 wrote, “Death control, like birth...
Joseph Fletcher, long considered a pioneer and leader in the field of bioethics, argued that people have dignity only if they are able to choose when, how, and why they are to live or to die. Fletcher1 wrote, “Death control, like birth...
Joseph Fletcher, long...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
09/15/2009
Wound healing is influenced by a combination of well-documented environmental and biological factors that have an impact on patient recovery. Currently, no effective diagnostic tools to assess the critical biologic activities or...
Wound healing is influenced by a combination of well-documented environmental and biological factors that have an impact on patient recovery. Currently, no effective diagnostic tools to assess the critical biologic activities or...
Wound healing is influenced...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Industry Insider
09/15/2009
Product helps improve catheter application
Ethicon Inc (Somerville, NJ) announced that the Biopatch® Protective Disk with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) will include new design elements and updated packaging to make it easier for...
Product helps improve catheter application
Ethicon Inc (Somerville, NJ) announced that the Biopatch® Protective Disk with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) will include new design elements and updated packaging to make it easier for...
Product helps improve catheter...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Feature
Empirical Studies
09/15/2009
Abstract
Pressure ulcers are serious health problems. Although a vast amount of literature addresses prevention and treatment strategies, conceptual difficulties persist regarding pressure ulcer definitions, classifications, and distinction...
Abstract
Pressure ulcers are serious health problems. Although a vast amount of literature addresses prevention and treatment strategies, conceptual difficulties persist regarding pressure ulcer definitions, classifications, and distinction...
Abstract
Pressure ulcers are...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
09/15/2009
Abstract
Patients with chronic wounds of the lower extremity (CWLEs) often experience functional disability and emotional distress; incorporating health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurements in clinical practice may improve...
Abstract
Patients with chronic wounds of the lower extremity (CWLEs) often experience functional disability and emotional distress; incorporating health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurements in clinical practice may improve...
Abstract
Patients with chronic...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
