Volume 49 - Issue 5 - May, 2003
Feature
Empirical Studies
05/01/2003
Pressure ulcer prevention falls within the domain of nursing practice. Skin assessment and care is taught as a fundamental part of all nursing education curricula. Nurses assess the patient's skin, develop a plan of care to maintain the...
Pressure ulcer prevention falls within the domain of nursing practice. Skin assessment and care is taught as a fundamental part of all nursing education curricula. Nurses assess the patient's skin, develop a plan of care to maintain the...
Pressure ulcer prevention...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
05/01/2003
A wound is a breach in the skin, and exposure of subcutaneous tissue following loss of skin integrity provides a moist, warm, nutritive environment conducive to microbial colonization and proliferation.1 Wound contaminants may not persist,...
A wound is a breach in the skin, and exposure of subcutaneous tissue following loss of skin integrity provides a moist, warm, nutritive environment conducive to microbial colonization and proliferation.1 Wound contaminants may not persist,...
A wound is a breach in the...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
05/01/2003
Hospital restructuring and downsizing has caused an increased demand for community care. These developments, in combination with a shortage of registered nurses, has focused attention on ways to provide more effective and efficient care....
Hospital restructuring and downsizing has caused an increased demand for community care. These developments, in combination with a shortage of registered nurses, has focused attention on ways to provide more effective and efficient care....
Hospital restructuring and...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
05/01/2003
New foam composite dressing has optimal moisture balance
ConvaTec Corporation (Skillman, NJ) announced the availability of Versiva™ dressing in the United States. The low-profile dressing, designed to be gentle, comfortable for patients,...
New foam composite dressing has optimal moisture balance
ConvaTec Corporation (Skillman, NJ) announced the availability of Versiva™ dressing in the United States. The low-profile dressing, designed to be gentle, comfortable for patients,...
New foam composite dressing has...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
05/01/2003
Just when state budgets are in desperate need of federal assistance and the number of uninsured Americans has reached an unbelievable high, (at press time) proposals on Congressional tables threaten to drastically cut Medicaid funding. If...
Just when state budgets are in desperate need of federal assistance and the number of uninsured Americans has reached an unbelievable high, (at press time) proposals on Congressional tables threaten to drastically cut Medicaid funding. If...
Just when state budgets are...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
05/01/2003
Robert Kirsner’s recent discussion1 of the work of the European Wound Management Association (EWMA) position paper,2 which cites pain as an important aspect of wound care, is on target. Acknowledgment of the need for attention to patient...
Robert Kirsner’s recent discussion1 of the work of the European Wound Management Association (EWMA) position paper,2 which cites pain as an important aspect of wound care, is on target. Acknowledgment of the need for attention to patient...
Robert Kirsner’s recent...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
05/01/2003
Vickie R. Driver, DPM, MS has a thing for feet… especially feet at risk. As Medical Director of Madigan Army Medical Center’s (MAMC) multidisciplinary Foot at Risk/Limb Salvage Clinic, Tacoma, Wash., Dr. Driver oversees foot-at-risk...
Vickie R. Driver, DPM, MS has a thing for feet… especially feet at risk. As Medical Director of Madigan Army Medical Center’s (MAMC) multidisciplinary Foot at Risk/Limb Salvage Clinic, Tacoma, Wash., Dr. Driver oversees foot-at-risk...
Vickie R. Driver, DPM, MS has...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
05/01/2003
Ostomy surgery (sic) was considered by many to be an unmitigated disaster, a measure of last resort to be undertaken only in patients in extremis because of the inability to control the unpredictable fluid excreta. ---Professor Brian...
Ostomy surgery (sic) was considered by many to be an unmitigated disaster, a measure of last resort to be undertaken only in patients in extremis because of the inability to control the unpredictable fluid excreta. ---Professor Brian...
Ostomy surgery (sic) was...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
Guest Editorial
05/01/2003
Recently, I was asked to consult on a 70-year-old gentleman who had extensive pressure ulcers on both heels. Following repair of a fractured hip a few months before, and while in the hospital, he developed small ulcers on both heels. An...
Recently, I was asked to consult on a 70-year-old gentleman who had extensive pressure ulcers on both heels. Following repair of a fractured hip a few months before, and while in the hospital, he developed small ulcers on both heels. An...
Recently, I was asked to...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Letters to the Editor
05/01/2003
Dear Editor,
Regarding the article, “The 105 Bacterial Growth Guideline: Reassessing its Clinical Relevance in Wound Healing” (Ostomy/Wound Management. 2003;49[1]:44–53), the interrelationships among micro-organisms and host resistance are...
Dear Editor,
Regarding the article, “The 105 Bacterial Growth Guideline: Reassessing its Clinical Relevance in Wound Healing” (Ostomy/Wound Management. 2003;49[1]:44–53), the interrelationships among micro-organisms and host resistance are...
Dear Editor,
Regarding the...
05/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
