Are Your Wound Care Workflows Clinically Appropriate?

Your wound care department checklist for 2015.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2015! A new year means time to reflect and strategize on how you want to move forward and improve processeswithin your department. I am hoping you had a successful 2014wound caring year. Take amoment and think about how youwant to improve your practice this year. Questions to consider include: (1)What is yourwoundmanagement vision for your department over the next ...

Selecting the appropriate PROM for your study

Clinically apparent adverse reactions to intra-wound vancomycin powder in early onset scoliosis are rare

Purpose Spine surgeons have increasingly used intraoperative application of topical vancomycin powder (TVP) to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs). The goals of this study were to define the rate of pharmacological adverse reaction to TVP in young patients undergoing posterior spinal surgery and to summarise institutional variation in TVP dosing. Methods This retrospective observational s...

Wound Care

260 WOC nurses highly value skin integrity, and much of our practice is dedicated to the prevention of skin breakdown and the treatment of persons with altered skin integrity. WOC nursing practice incorporates detailed knowledge of the characteristics of wound and skin care products; however, often it is persons with less expertise in skin care who select the products that many health care faci...

Wound Care

A chronic wound is defined as one that does not heal in an orderly sequence or predictable timeframe and fails to progress along the wound-healing continuum. In the UK alone, there were recently estimated to be 1.3 million chronic wounds, of which 153,000 were pressure ulcers, 253,000 dehisced surgical wounds, 169,000 diabetic foot ulcers and 730,000 leg ulcers (Guest et al, 2015). A leg ulcer ...