You are here

Search Results for: Me

Bio-Oil helps self-care for wounds

Wound Care Advisor
bio-oil

Minimize scarring through new patient booklet.

A new patient resource has launched in the UK offering primary care healthcare professionals (HCPs) the opportunity to help patients self-care for their wounds and minimise scarring.

The new patient booklet resource, ‘Supporting you to care for wounds and to minimise scarring’, created with help from expert Dermatologist, Justine Hextall, and supported by Bio-Oil, has been developed following research demonstrating the the frequency that HCP’s are required to provide support to patients in primary care, with one in five (20%) being asked for advice on a weekly basis. (more…)

Read More

Wounds that won’t heal can be devastating

Wound Care Advisor
diabetic foot ulcer

Carol Emanuele beat cancer. But for the last two years, the Philadelphia woman has been fighting her toughest battle yet. She has an open wound on the bottom of her foot that leaves her unable to walk and prone to deadly infection.

In an effort to treat her diabetic wound, doctors at a clinic in Northeast Philadelphia have prescribed a dizzying array of treatments. Freeze-dried placenta. Penis foreskin cells. High doses of pressurized oxygen. And those are just a few of the treatment options patients face.

“I do everything, but nothing seems to work,” said Emanuele, 59, who survived stage 4 melanoma in her 30s. “I beat cancer, but this is worse.” (more…)

Read More

Antibiotic use in pressure injury infections

Wound Care Advisor
antibiotic overuse pressure injury infection

Antibiotic overuse contributes to the problems of antibiotic resistance and healthcare acquired infections, such as Clostridium difficile. Antibiotic stewardship programs improve patient outcomes, reduce antimicrobial resistance, and save money. These programs are designed to ensure patients receive the right antibiotic, at the right dose, at the right time, and for the right duration. (more…)

Read More

NYU docs are using machine learning to stop a stealthy disease before it’s too late

Wound Care Advisor
lymphatic system disease

Researchers at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering have teamed up with those from the university’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing to develop a machine-learning algorithm that could help detect a lymphatic system disease before doctors are able to.

There is no cure for lymphedema, only physical exercises that can keep the symptoms in check. (more…)

Read More

Better Skin Grafts – take only one layer

Wound Care Advisor
skin graft take one layer

Research shows that a skin-graft harvesting system aids chronic wound recovery and reduces care costs by accelerating the healing process.

More than six million cases of chronic wounds cost $20 billion each year in the United States. Diabetic ulcers, pressure sores, surgical site wounds, and traumatic injuries to high-risk patients account for most wounds that won’t heal. (more…)

Read More

Crawford bags FDA clearance for wound dressing that will ‘save limbs’

Wound Care Advisor
fda wound dressing save limb

Crawford Healthcare, one of the biggest makers of advanced wound-care products in the UK, has won clearance from US regulators for a medical dressing that it says will “save limbs”.

The product, called KerraCel AG, soaks up fluid and bacteria from nasty, oozing wounds and locks it away as a gel. It is also the only dressing of its kind to contain silver at a special concentration to kill all bacteria – even those resistant to antibiotics – that prevent chronic wounds, such as diabetic ulcers and pressure sores, from healing.  (more…)

Read More

New Approach to Wound Healing Easy on Skin, Tough on Bacteria

Wound Care Advisor
wound healing

Washington, D.C. — In a presentation  to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach to wound healing that could take advantage of silver’s anti-bacterial properties, while sidestepping the damage silver can cause to cells needed for healing.

Silver is widely used to prevent bacterial contamination in wound dressings, says Agarwal, “but these dressings deliver a very large load of silver, and that can kill a lot of cells in the wound.” (more…)

Read More

Dragon blood may help wounds heal faster

Wound Care Advisor
synthetic peptide heal komodo dragon

A new study has identified a peptide, derived from the Komodo dragon, called VK25, which can be synthesized and used as an antimicrobial peptide to promote wound healing.

The new research has identified (see below) a peptide found from the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), called VK25, which appears to be useful as a cationic antimicrobial peptide (CAMP). There is currently considerable interest in antimicrobial peptides in a world where antibiotic effectiveness is in decline. These peptides are potent, broad spectrum antibiotics which demonstrate potential as novel therapeutic agents. (more…)

Read More

Search Wound Care Advisor

The Latest on Wound Care Advisor

After a few days, the regenerative phase will be well at work closing the wound. Jpbarrass via Wikimedia Commons

Why do older people heal more slowly?

By Matthew Steinhauser, University of Pittsburgh I recently visited an 83-year-old patient in the hospital after EMTs rushed her to the ER with an infected leg wound. Her ordeal started inconspicuously when she bumped...
Dr. Isabel Kerr, a European missionary, administering to a patient a chaulmoogra oil treatment in 1915, prior to the invention of the Ball Method. George McGlashan Kerr, CC BY

A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit

By Mark M. Lambert, Des Moines University Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks...
leprosy

Leprosy cases are rising in the US – what is the ancient disease and why is it spreading now?

By Robert A. Schwartz, Rutgers University The word “leprosy” conjures images of biblical plagues, but the disease is still with...
Vibrio vulnificus

Flesh-eating bacteria infections are on the rise in the US

By Bill Sullivan, Indiana University Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing...
Map of cases of the flesh eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus

Rare ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacterium Spreads North as Oceans Warm

By Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times Debbie King barely gave it a second thought when she scraped her right shin...

Silk wound dressing helps eliminate scar tissue formation

Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China have developed a new type of wound dressing, based on a silk...

Predicting diabetic foot ulcer healing improves with thermal imaging

A first of its kind study between RMIT University, the University of Melbourne, and Austin Health, used thermal imaging to predict the...

Biotech startup announces patent for regenerative tissue therapy

BioLab Sciences, an innovator in regenerative medicine technologies, has announced the patent of MyOwn SkinTM, a new, non-evasive, regenerative tissue...

Webinar: Innovations in Wound Care

Webinar: Innovations in Wound Care

View and download the PDF slide-deck below. American Nurse Today, Woundcare Advisor and Angelini present: Innovations in Wound Care: Case...

FDA approves wound retraction system that fights surgical site infections

The FDA has approved a wound retraction system created by Prescient Surgical. The company’s CleanCision wound retraction and protection system...

FDA approves shock wave device for treatment of diabetic foot ulcers

On December 28, 2017, the FDA gave approval for the Dermapace System, a shock wave device intended to be used...

About WoundCareAdvisor.com

GOAL

WoundCareAdvisor.com is a unique educational web destination that has been designed to be a trusted, timely and useful resource for healthcare professionals dealing with chronic wounds and ostomy management issues.  Offerings on the side currently include 

  • News
  • Peer-reviewed articles
  • Product information
  • Provider/patient education
  • Practical resources

Information on the site is continuously developed and updated to ensure that we are providing

Resources and information that is

  • Unique to the wound care field
  • Timely
  • Informative
  • Interactive

WoundCareAdvisor.com is also going to be growing!  Future information will include:

Practice Resources

  • Clinical Notes
  • Practice Points
  • How To. . .
  • Interactive Resources
  • Forums

Bookmark this site and check back often!  Contact us at [email protected] with your comments, suggestions or if you would like to be a contributor.

Read More

3 reasons why cornea is the new Glaucoma

Wound Care Advisor
Glaucoma

development of glaucomaOphthalmology is a great specialty partly because procedures, devices and drugs constantly evolve, keeping us learning and giving our patients better care. Ask your colleagues in other specialties, and you’ll find that the pace of change in most other medical fields is not nearly as rapid as in ours.

Over the past few years, this pace of change has been very evident in glaucoma, where minimally invasive procedures have greatly diminished the frequency of trabeculectomy and tube shunt procedures. In this issue of OSN, our cover story focuses on a specialty that’s now moving as quickly as glaucoma. And here are three reasons I believe cornea will continue to be the “next big thing” in eye care: (more…)

Read More
1 … 10 11 12 13 14 … 39