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Best in Class: Scottsdale Wound Management Guide
Comprehensive pocket handbook offers differential diagnosis and treatment options at your fingertips
Malvern, PA (June 8, 2009) – Proper wound care management has become one of the top concerns for many clinicians across various medical specialties. Treatment is specific to the wound type, the patient and the long-term care plan and requires ongoing assessment. Read More
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On-Demand! Wound Healing in Today’s Healthcare Environment – How Advanced Dressing Technology Can Help Ease the Strain
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Managing the Diabetic Foot: A Clinical and Economic View Complimentary Archived Webcast
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Head Over Heels and Butts 2.0
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Emerging Concepts in Treating Pressure Ulcers
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Understanding Collagen Dressings and their Benefit in Wound Care
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Straight talk about dressing MTVR
We’ve all experienced opinions that don’t make sense but are repeated so often they are generally accepted. I call these “Common Nonsense” after Tom Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense that helped foment US independence. By questioning authority, we open our minds to learning nature’s truths and applying them to improve patient outcomes. If we don’t learn, natural truths continue to baffle us with poor outcomes, making life a puzzle we don’t understand. Scientific method helps us learn without bias what nature tells us so all who dare can follow.
Diabetic Foot Care: The State of Play in India
The prevalence of diabetes is rapidly increasing and is expected to reach epidemic proportions over the next decade. Today, nearly 246 million people worldwide are diagnosed with diabetes, with India accounting for almost 45 million of those diagnoses. This number is expected to increase to 73 million by the year 2025 and India was deemed the diabetic capital of the world at the International Diabetes Federation Conference in Copenhagen in November 2006. Diabetes is associated with a plethora of complications with foot ulcerations being the most common.
Ten Tips for the SAWC Attendees
It’s that time of year again …. not President’s Day, Valentine’s Day, or any other February occasion. It’s the upcoming Spring Equinox — how I refer to the Spring Symposium for Advanced Wound Care (the SAWC). The days get longer and longer and busier in preparing for the conference.
New Year’s Resolution
I don’t have a Kindle or own a device that features a pleasant-sounding person giving me directions from Point A to Point B. Sometimes, getting lost leads to new and unexpected things in life. My professional career into wound, ostomy and continence care began because I had a supervisor who “ordered” me into the specialty when a colleague retired. I was lost at first but gained direction through a variety of street signs in the form of journals, conferences, and mentors. These were my professional Garmin.
A New Kind of Symposium
On Kalendae, the first day of the month, debts were due in ancient Rome. Accounting books were called calendarium from which we derive the word “calendar.” In Roman tradition, financial institutions today send calendars to their clients. I paged through one of the dozen or so 2010 calendars I received this year. How many wound care meetings could I possibly attend? It is difficult to leave a busy practice for even a short time. Hospitals are cutting travel budgets. This begs the question: Do we need eight to ten wound care meetings per year in addition to the Olympian World Union every
Ghostwriting
Do you know any ghosts? There are numerous programs on television and movies about ghosts. My favorite is still Casper the Friendly Ghost. I know I should have outgrown him, but I am not a fan of the scary ghost stories and movies currently in vogue. Do you know any ghosts? Sounds like a silly question, but you may have a ghost for a colleague or friend—at least a ghostwriter. In my opinion, ghostwriting in medical literature can take at least three forms—1) when someone claims to have written an article and there is no evidence it exists, 2) when someone is listed on a published art
Your Role in Guideline Validation
Laura Bolton, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Surgery, Bioengineering Section
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Retired after 32 years in wound care science, I am devoted to ensuring patients receive care based on the best available evidence. As so many OWM readers have taught me, we all are responsible for helping patients. During my post-retirement years, I plan to summarize wound care evidence to make it simple and easy for busy professionals to apply and use to improve patient outcomes. This is why I agreed to serve on the OWM Editorial
FedEx to Wound Care
Paula Kreissler, President/Owner, Wound Care Clinic - ESU, Inc.
This first entry is to give you an overview of what I/we do. I own and operate two independent out-patient wound care clinics. One clinic is in Savannah, GA and the other is about 15 miles northwest of Savannah in Pooler, GA. We opened our doors first in Savannah in April 2005 and then due to growth we opened the Pooler office in July 2007. I do not have a medical background but found myself wanting to start a small business after having just spent 25 years at FedEx … most of those years in operations managem
Introduction
By Barbara Zeiger, Editorial Director, Wound Division Executive Editor, Ostomy Wound Management HMP Communications, Malvern, PA
So how is it that a middle-aged woman with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education rises through the ranks of a medical publishing company to become its leading journal’s Executive Editor and then Editorial Director of her division?
It all started when I wrote my first poem in fourth grade (“January starts off the year/February brings love and cheer….”). I realized then that writing would always be part of my life. I graduated from Temple Universit
SAFETY, BARIATRICS, AND WOUND CARE: UNDERSTANDING THE RISKS
Trends in Urinary and Obesity
It seems that everyone is talking about weight and weight issues these days. There are reality shows, newspaper articles, TV documentaries, and sidewalk debates devoted to obesity, which affect many lives in many ways. Weight loss surgery (WLS) is also receiving lots of attention, and this is probably because we see some great data about the improvement or resolution of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and sleep apnea after bariatric surgery. However, other aggravating conditions are showing improvement, too. Stress urinary inconti
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