Volume 49 - Issue 4 - April, 2003

Department

My Scope of Practice: One Title, Many Hats

04/01/2003

Brenda Hensley, MSN, RN, CWOCN, has made a name for herself in the field of wound ostomy continence care - probably because, as she says, she "has her fingers in everything" (no pun intended). As a Clinical Nurse Specialist/WOC nurse with...

Brenda Hensley, MSN, RN,...

04/01/2003

Wound Management & Prevention

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OWM Book Review: Love, Honor, & Value: A Family Caregiver Speaks Out about the Choices and Challenges of Caregiving

04/01/2003

Love, Honor, & Value provides valuable information for caregivers of people of all ages. The author is one of the co-founders of the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) (www.nfcacares.org). Formed in 1993, NAFC aims to...

Love, Honor, & Value...

04/01/2003

Wound Management & Prevention

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The Voice of Great Events

04/01/2003

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us. Reform if you would preserve. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 The voice of great events can be heard throughout our nation's health system. The list is long and grows daily - gene...

The voice of great events is...

04/01/2003

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New Products and Industry News

04/01/2003

Unit-dose of ointments new to market Healthpoint, Ltd. (Fort Worth, Tex.) introduced the first unit-dose packaging of prescription ointments Panafil® and Accuzyme® in barcoded 6-g units to complement the standard 30-g tubes. Accuzyme is...

Unit-dose of ointments new to...

04/01/2003

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Ethics

The Human Element of Advanced Technology

04/01/2003

Human beings are endowed with the power and desire to reason, organize, and manipulate the world around them. These distinctly human abilities have given rise to acquisition of knowledge throughout the ages, and the rapid growth of this...

Human beings are endowed with...

04/01/2003

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Empirical Studies

Treating Recalcitrant Diabetic Wounds with Hyaluronic Acid: A Review of Patients

04/01/2003

The characteristic wound in the patient with diabetes is the foot ulcer, which is estimated to affect up to 15% of all people with diabetes during their lifetime.1 The cost of diabetic foot ulcers is high; the length of hospitalization for...

The characteristic wound in...

04/01/2003

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Case Report

Pharmacotherapy as Adjunctive Treatment for Serious Foot Wounds in the Patient with Diabetes: A Case Study

04/01/2003

Literature Review Nonhealing foot ulcers, characterized by a lack of self-repair over time, are prevalent among individuals with diabetes mellitus.1 Although surveillance reports of diabetic foot ulcers are fraught with limitations,...

Literature Review Nonhealing...

04/01/2003

Wound Management & Prevention

Empirical Studies

Does Sterile or Nonsterile Technique Make a Difference in Wounds Healing by Secondary Intention?

04/01/2003

In the spring of 1998, nursing staff on two surgical units at a major medical center noticed inconsistencies in the care of open surgical wounds. Some nurses used sterile while others employed a clean dressing change technique. Because...

In the spring of 1998,...

04/01/2003

Wound Management & Prevention

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Letter from the Editor

From the Editor: The Advantages of April

04/01/2003

April, T.S. Eliot wrote, "is the cruellest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ Memory out of desire, stirring/ Dull roots with spring rain." Emerson, not to be outdone, chimed in, "April cold with dripping rain...." And...

April, T.S. Eliot wrote, "is...

04/01/2003

Wound Management & Prevention

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Letters to the Editor

April 2003 Letters to the Editor

04/01/2003

The Topical Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Debate Dear Editor, In response to the article, "Topical Hyperbaric Oxygen and Electrical Stimulation: Exploring Potential Synergy" (Ostomy/Wound Management. 2002;48(11):42-50), by definition,...

The Topical Hyperbaric Oxygen...

04/01/2003

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

Study to determine if the use of a new dressing protocol applied by advanced practice certified wound care nurses at the patient’s residence could be effective in rapid wound resolution.

Understanding Moisture-associated Skin Damage and Best Practice Recommendations

Special Report on MASD written by Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP, MAPWCA; Siobhan McCoulough, CNS; and Patricia Idensohn, CNS.

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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