Wound Central - Clinical Focus

Real-time bacterial fluorescence imaging accurately identifies wounds with moderate-to-heavy bacterial burden

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...

Biomodulation induced by fluorescent light energy versus standard of care in venous leg ulcers: a retrospective study

This study was conducted in compliance with the ethical principles that have their origin in the Declaration of Helsinki, ICH/GCPs & ISO 14155:2011 and all applicable local/national regulatory...

Detection of bacteria in burn wounds with a novel handheld autofluorescence wound imaging device: a pilot study

A total of 14 patients with 20 wounds participated in the study, of whom eight (57%) were male. In six patients, two different wounds were included at two different timepoints during admission. Median...

Fluorescence imaging guided dressing change frequency during negative pressure wound therapy: a case series

Patients ranged in age from 18 to 87 years. We assessed 11 wounds undergoing NPWT (10 patients in total) were imaged for bacterial fluorescence as part of this study. A beneficial effect of bacterial...

Comparing near infrared spectroscopy and transcutaneous oxygen measurement in hard-to-heal wounds: a pilot study

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...

Antibiotic prescribing in wound care

NICE8 defines antimicrobial stewardship as ‘an organisational or health-care system wide approach to promoting and monitoring judicious use of antimicrobials to preserve their future effectiveness’..

Dermatology prescribing update: skin infections management

Skin examination, including looking for signs and symptoms of infection, is a critical part of a holistic nursing assessment. These signs include inflammation, which may be tender or painful, with wet...