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This prospective, randomised, double-blind pilot study, conducted at a single outpatient wound care centre located in Western Pennsylvania, US, evaluated the efficacy of a topical antiseptic (Anasept)...
One of the first documented pressure ulcer classification systems was developed by Shea in 1975. ‘Bedsores’ were classified by the depth of soft tissue damage and exposure into grades I–V; an...
The first step in the algorithm (Fig 1) is to identify people at risk of developing a PU, such as those with reduced mobility, urinary or fecal incontinence, and those who are malnourished.1 Once...
This was a multicentre, open-label, randomised clinical trial conducted in 19 outpatient centres, geographically spread across the US. The primary objective of the study was to investigate the healing...
A panel of physician experts from a variety of medical specialties met virtually to address the immediate problems with physician certification in wound care. The panel represented clinicians from all...
Wound bacterial management is critical, therefore evaluation of CSS to determine a wound's status along the accepted bacterial contamination-to-infection continuum is important to any wound...
This study compared a NIRS device (SnapshotNIR, Kent Imaging, Canada) with a TCOM device (Perimed, US) in patients with hard-to-heal wounds. Patients with acute and hard-to-heal wounds from a single...
On 13 April 2020, the pulmonologist at Opelousas General Health System consulted the hyperbaric team for a 48-year-old African American woman complaining of severe shortness of breath with a...
