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Consequently, many wound care studies are of small scale and observational, constituting an immature body of knowledge with little transferability potential..
After applying a CTBP, as per manufacturer recommendation, to a variety of wound aetiologies and locations, a soft silicone wound contact layer was applied over the CTBP with overlap extending at...
Comparison of oxygen delivery therapies (not shown to scale). Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is given in a high-pressure chamber delivering 90 minutes of oxygen per day, five days per week. Topical...
A retrospective chart review of patients with DFUs who attended the FTA clinic at a large, inner-city, tertiary care, academic hospital between January 2008 and January 2013 was conducted. Patients...
The location of fungating wounds can vary widely and the most common site is the breasts.12 In women fungating wounds often occur in the chest, where breast tumours have metastasised. In men fungating...
There are a number of factors that can affect the nutritional status of palliative patients and these vary according to their diagnosis. Although palliative patients are a heterogeneous group,...
Malignant transformation is a rare and often misdiagnosed complication of chronic leg ulcers..
The NIS database, developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), is maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). It is the largest publicly-available...
The aim of the study was to assess the potential of a micro capillary dressing to increase oxygenation, improve perfusion and reduction of oedema (tissue water index) in patients with therapy...
A 49-year-old female patient was diagnosed in infancy with pulmonary atresia, a ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collaterals. The patient underwent a Blalock-Taussig shunt at aged 18...
The three risk factors for amputation illustrated as three intersecting rings of dominance (adapted from Armstrong and Mills)1.