Introduction Throughout history, there has never been such a plethora of wound treatment choices and it is now an exciting and expanding field of care. However, wound management is often undertaken by health-care professionals who have not received sufficient training in this specialty (King, 2000) and this undoubtedly means that dressings are sometimes used inadvisably or inappropriately (Bux ...

Process The WMWP consisted of executive, allied health, unit managers, accounts and clinical staff to ensure the committee had organisation wide buy-in and could act on recommendations made. In 2012, BHS partnered with an industry consultative Wounds Improvement Program to review current systems and conduct a wound prevalence audit of acute, residential and community clients. A report of recomm...

External thermoregulation using noncontact normothermic wound therapy accelerates wound closure by second intention in areas of existing osteomyelitis before surgical excision compared with standard wound care. This pilot study consisted of two arms. The control arm received standard wound care, which resulted in complete ulcer healing at an average of 127 days. The treatment arm received nonco...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the cost of chronic wound care for Medicare beneficiaries in aggregate, by wound type and by setting. METHODS This retrospective analysis of the Medicare 5% Limited Data Set for calendar year 2014 included beneficiaries who experienced episodes of care for one or more of the following: arterial ulcers, chronic ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, diab...

Skin wounds are categorized as 'acute' or 'chronic' based on the healing process. Wound care is of utmost importance break in skin barrier exposes internal milieu to various commensal and pathogenic microbes. The usage nanomaterials a recent approach facilitate wound by processes that operate singly tandem. Metal show antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory activities; organic-inorganic, o...

In wound care today, biofilm is a subject area of great interest and debate. There is an increasing awareness that biofilm exists in the majority of non-healing wounds, and that it is implicated in both recalcitrance and infection. Together with the presence of devitalised host tissue, biofilm is recognised as a component of the wound environment that requires removal to enable wound progressio...

OBJECTIVES To discuss how patient considerations and the initial wound environment can affect wound treatment and summarize the way in which the initial US Wound Registry measures capture aspects of the DIME (Debridement/devitalized tissue, Infection or inflammation, Moisture balance, and wound Edge preparation/wound depth) principles. DISCUSSION The treatment of chronic wounds often involves...