Volume 56 - Issue 5 - May, 2010
Column
Executive Spotlight
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
05/10/2010
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel1 (NPUAP) defines a pressure ulcer (PU) as “a localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue, usually over a bony prominence, that results from pressure (including pressure associated with...
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel1 (NPUAP) defines a pressure ulcer (PU) as “a localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue, usually over a bony prominence, that results from pressure (including pressure associated with...
The National Pressure Ulcer...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
05/10/2010
An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure designed to solve a specific problem by advancing through a series of pre-determined logical steps. Initially used in computers and digital processing, algorithms now are used for many diagnostic...
An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure designed to solve a specific problem by advancing through a series of pre-determined logical steps. Initially used in computers and digital processing, algorithms now are used for many diagnostic...
An algorithm is a...
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Wound Management & Prevention
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Weird Science: May 25, 2010
Air Force Treats Wounds with Lasers and Nanotechnology
Long gone are stitches and old-school sutures. The Air Force is now funding scientists who are using nanotechnology and lasers to seal up wounds at a...
Weird Science: May 25, 2010
Air Force Treats Wounds with Lasers and Nanotechnology
Long gone are stitches and old-school sutures. The Air Force is now funding scientists who are using nanotechnology and lasers to seal up wounds at a...
Weird Science: May 25, 2010
Air...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Industry Insider
05/10/2010
Continence control device receives medical design excellence award
ConvaTec (Skillman, NJ) recently announced that the Vitala™ Continence Control Device (CCD) has received a 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award. Vitala™ CCD is a...
Continence control device receives medical design excellence award
ConvaTec (Skillman, NJ) recently announced that the Vitala™ Continence Control Device (CCD) has received a 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award. Vitala™ CCD is a...
Continence control device...
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Wound Management & Prevention
Department
05/10/2010
Perhaps this very instant is your time. — Louise Bogan, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1897–1970)
During the last US presidential election and in its aftermath with the recent passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of...
Perhaps this very instant is your time. — Louise Bogan, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1897–1970)
During the last US presidential election and in its aftermath with the recent passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of...
Perhaps this very instant is...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Feature
Empirical Studies
05/10/2010
Abstract: Lower-extremity ulcers represent the largest group of ulcers presenting to an outpatient wound care clinic and, of those, ulcers due to venous insufficiency and venous hypertension make up the largest subgroup of these ulcers....
Abstract: Lower-extremity ulcers represent the largest group of ulcers presenting to an outpatient wound care clinic and, of those, ulcers due to venous insufficiency and venous hypertension make up the largest subgroup of these ulcers....
Abstract: Lower-extremity...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
05/10/2010
Abstract
Scanning electron microscopy study results support an in vitro bactericidal effect of low-frequency ultrasound (LFU) delivered at 40 kHz on bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The purpose of...
Abstract
Scanning electron microscopy study results support an in vitro bactericidal effect of low-frequency ultrasound (LFU) delivered at 40 kHz on bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The purpose of...
Abstract
Scanning electron...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
05/10/2010
Abstract
The creation of a stoma can profoundly affect a patient’s quality of life. A prospective, 3-month multicenter study was conducted to evaluate stoma patient quality of life among volunteers receiving standard clinical follow-up...
Abstract
The creation of a stoma can profoundly affect a patient’s quality of life. A prospective, 3-month multicenter study was conducted to evaluate stoma patient quality of life among volunteers receiving standard clinical follow-up...
Abstract
The creation of a...
05/10/2010
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
05/10/2010
Abstract
Fragmented teaching and ostomy care provided by nonspecialized clinicians unfamiliar with state-of-the-art care and products have been identified as problems in teaching ostomy care to the new ostomate. After conducting a...
Abstract
Fragmented teaching and ostomy care provided by nonspecialized clinicians unfamiliar with state-of-the-art care and products have been identified as problems in teaching ostomy care to the new ostomate. After conducting a...
Abstract
Fragmented...
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Wound Management & Prevention
