Wound Assessment

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD Recently I paid a visit to one of the better known wound care centers in the North East. As I expected, treatment of the common lesions seen in this center, such as venou...

By Aletha Tippett MD In a previous blog I told about the heartbreak of limb salvage when one of your patients was swooped out of your care and had an amputation. The patient I mentioned did have an...

By Diana L. Gallagher MS, RN, CWOCN, CFCN I frequently write about the value and rewards of being a WOCNCB® certified nurse. It is an amazing job that allows me to save limbs and change lives on a ...

By Aletha Tippett MD If we let the body alone, can it take care of a healing a wound? In general, yes, leaving the body alone will get you further than some procedures because the body knows what t...

By Samantha Kuplicki, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGCNS-BC, CWCN-AP, CWS, RNFA Should pain management interventions be put in place before debriding a venous ulcer? Without question, yes. Any comprehensive w...

By Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWOCN, CWS, FACCWS There are many tools that can be used to assess wounds. It is important to be aware of these tools and what they measure. It is also important to become...

By Holly M. Hovan MSN, APRN-ACNS-BC, CWOCN-AP After determining our goals of wound treatment (healing, maintaining, or comfort/palliative), we need to choose a treatment that meets the needs of th...

By Martin D. Vera, LVN, CWS Wound bed preparation has become the gold standard model for proper wound assessment. It allows us clinicians to identify and breakdown local barriers to wound healing. ...

by the WoundSource Editors One of the greatest challenges when dealing with biofilms in chronic wounds is identifying their existence in the first place. The extracellular polymeric substance or E...