Tunneling Wounds 101: Essential Tips for Practitioners

Tunneling Wounds 101: Essential Tips for Practitioners

The skin is the largest organ in the body and provides an effective barrier between the body and potential harmful forces, which makes it a very important organ to keep working properly and healthy. Maintaining skin integrity is crucial to overall function of most bodily systems. Everyone has experienced wounds, most of which do heal…

Infected Wounds and Their Treatment: Beyond the Basics

Infected Wounds and Their Treatment: Beyond the Basics

Infected wounds are easy to identify, or so the common wisdom says. You conduct a visual examination. Is it red, puffy, oozing, smelly? If it has at least one of those characteristics, likely infection is the culprit. But there’s more to infected wounds than the basics. They are painful, costly, and impact every step of…

Empowering Patients with Meaningful Data: The New Frontier in Wound Healing

Empowering Patients with Meaningful Data: The New Frontier in Wound Healing

Ben Magid, CEO Virtualcare Every wound care provider has had patients who, despite all efforts, fail to improve, even when clinically, they should. It’s frustrating, challenging, heartbreaking, and a reality of the profession. It’s also one our industry works tirelessly to address. How can we find ways to better connect with patients? How can we…

Wound Care Research: How We Get to the New and Newsworthy

Wound Care Research: How We Get to the New and Newsworthy

Wound care research has been quite busy over the past few years. Once an area often overlooked by pharma, recent years have seen tremendous growth in cutting-edge research. From investigating molecular pathways to exploring the role of AI to finding ways to target diseases that ravage underserved populations, researchers are constantly seeking ways to push…

Tissue Regeneration: Bridging Nature’s Healing Power and Human Innovation

Tissue Regeneration: Bridging Nature’s Healing Power and Human Innovation

For many of us, tissue regeneration is the stuff of science fiction. Tissue generation happens when the body repairs or replaces damaged tissues after injury. It’s your body’s version of plants growing back over a crack in the pavement. It’s how you go from a really bad injury or wound to healed. It’s the next…

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Benefits: Wound Care for the Win

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Benefits: Wound Care for the Win

When traditional treatments fail to help a wound heal fully, advanced wound care is there to offer another avenue. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in particular offers many benefits. Advanced wound care covers a number of treatments that can be used when standard methods fail to show improvement in the wound’s healing process or allow it to…

Healing in a Vacuum: How Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Transforms Wound Care

Healing in a Vacuum: How Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Transforms Wound Care

Difficult wounds don’t exist in a vacuum. But a vacuum — more precisely, negative pressure — can work wonders in helping heal wounds under the right conditions. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), also known as vacuum-assisted closure (VAC), has revolutionized wound care by utilizing controlled suction to enhance the body’s natural healing processes. Vacuum-assisted closure…

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The CORE of Your Wound Care Program’s Success: Documentation and ThinkFlow

Cathy Thomas Hess, BSN, RN, CWCNVice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Net Health When I first started my journey in wound care back in the ’80s, documenting patient care was a straightforward task. You did your work, wrote it down for the paper record, and moved on to the next task. But as healthcare has…