Volume 53 - Issue 5 - May, 2007
Column
Letter from the Editor
05/01/2007
Because it is a clinically oriented publication, Ostomy Wound Management rarely addresses the business side of care. With millions of people experiencing chronic, nonhealing wounds – numbers that promise to grow with increasing incidence of...
Because it is a clinically oriented publication, Ostomy Wound Management rarely addresses the business side of care. With millions of people experiencing chronic, nonhealing wounds – numbers that promise to grow with increasing incidence of...
Because it is a clinically...
05/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
05/01/2007
Earlier this year, the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) updated its pressure ulcer definitions and staging system. A pressure ulcer is defined as localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue, usually over a bony...
Earlier this year, the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) updated its pressure ulcer definitions and staging system. A pressure ulcer is defined as localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue, usually over a bony...
Earlier this year, the...
05/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention
Feature
Case Report
05/01/2007
Pilonidal disease is a common anorectal problem with an incidence of 16 cases per 100,000 people and an incidence of 1.1% in young adult men.1,2 The majority of cases present as acute disease and are adequately managed with incision and...
Pilonidal disease is a common anorectal problem with an incidence of 16 cases per 100,000 people and an incidence of 1.1% in young adult men.1,2 The majority of cases present as acute disease and are adequately managed with incision and...
Pilonidal disease is a common...
05/01/2007
Wound Management & Prevention
