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Volume 52 - Issue 3 - March, 2006

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Empirical Studies
Risk Factors Associated with Healing Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcers: The Importance of Hyperglycemia
03/01/2006
    Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) frequently precede limb loss1 and remain a difficult clinical problem to treat. Standard wound management protocols have not proven to result in rapid healing. Margolis et al2 reported the results of a...
    Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) frequently precede limb loss1 and remain a difficult clinical problem to treat. Standard wound management protocols have not proven to result in rapid healing. Margolis et al2 reported the results of a...
    Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU)...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Successful Outcomes with the h.e.a.l. Program
03/01/2006
    The positive outcomes of standardized, evidence-based wound care protocols have been well documented.1–3 Beginning in March 2003, the Community Care Access Centre of Wellington-Dufferin (CCACWD) implemented the Healing Excellence with...
    The positive outcomes of standardized, evidence-based wound care protocols have been well documented.1–3 Beginning in March 2003, the Community Care Access Centre of Wellington-Dufferin (CCACWD) implemented the Healing Excellence with...
    The positive outcomes of...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Case Report
A Case Study of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy to Manage Acute Necrotizing Fasciitis
03/01/2006
    Necrotizing fasciitis is a devastating infection of the subcutaneous tissue. Without prompt diagnosis and surgical debridement, the infection can lead to large open wounds, amputations, and even death. Standard treatment involves surgical...
    Necrotizing fasciitis is a devastating infection of the subcutaneous tissue. Without prompt diagnosis and surgical debridement, the infection can lead to large open wounds, amputations, and even death. Standard treatment involves surgical...
    Necrotizing fasciitis is a...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Case Report
Up Close and Personal with Deep Vein Thrombosis
03/01/2006
   Clinicians often are so focused on their patients’ needs and symptoms they overlook their own health. If an elderly, hospitalized, or immobilized patient presented in a healthcare facility, clinicians would automatically check for deep...
   Clinicians often are so focused on their patients’ needs and symptoms they overlook their own health. If an elderly, hospitalized, or immobilized patient presented in a healthcare facility, clinicians would automatically check for deep...
   Clinicians often are so...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Guest Editorial
Guest Editorial: Conducting (Paperless) Research
03/01/2006
    I think that I shall never see        A poem lovely as a tree. — Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)     Baby boomers may celebrate or regret those bygone days when research was conducted in silent, dusty, dimly lit library stacks. Thin, yellowed...
    I think that I shall never see        A poem lovely as a tree. — Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)     Baby boomers may celebrate or regret those bygone days when research was conducted in silent, dusty, dimly lit library stacks. Thin, yellowed...
    I think that I shall never...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
The Ostomy Files: Sexuality after Ostomy Surgery
03/01/2006
    Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne     Regardless of a person’s age, diagnosis, or sexual preference, ostomy surgery infringes on the high value society places on beauty, body, sexuality, cleanliness, and...
    Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne     Regardless of a person’s age, diagnosis, or sexual preference, ostomy surgery infringes on the high value society places on beauty, body, sexuality, cleanliness, and...
    Love built on beauty, soon...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Xerosis and Pruritus in Elderly Patients, Part 2
03/01/2006
    Pruritus is a perceived itching sensation, often psychogenic in origin. Characteristic features of pruritus include scratching and inflammation. The effect of histamine on the touch proprioceptors is thought to induce itching and is...
    Pruritus is a perceived itching sensation, often psychogenic in origin. Characteristic features of pruritus include scratching and inflammation. The effect of histamine on the touch proprioceptors is thought to induce itching and is...
    Pruritus is a perceived...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
My Scope of Practice: For the Little People
03/01/2006
    Children aren’t just little people. They are little people with big imaginations. — Marie Oren-Sosebee     When Marie Oren-Sosebee, RN, BSN, CWOCN, became a nurse, she imagined herself working in a clinic for the indigent or in a...
    Children aren’t just little people. They are little people with big imaginations. — Marie Oren-Sosebee     When Marie Oren-Sosebee, RN, BSN, CWOCN, became a nurse, she imagined herself working in a clinic for the indigent or in a...
    Children aren’t just little...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
New Products and Industry News
03/01/2006
New mesh dressing has silver    3M (St. Paul, Minn) announces the launch of 3M Tegaderm™ Ag Mesh Dressing with Silver, a new wound care product with fast-acting, long-lasting antimicrobial barrier effectiveness against a wide range of...
New mesh dressing has silver    3M (St. Paul, Minn) announces the launch of 3M Tegaderm™ Ag Mesh Dressing with Silver, a new wound care product with fast-acting, long-lasting antimicrobial barrier effectiveness against a wide range of...
New mesh dressing has silver  ...
03/01/2006
Wound Management & Prevention

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The Wound Hygiene Protocol: An Expert Challenge of Complex Wounds
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