Volume 4 Issue 12 - December 2010
Column
Business Briefs
12/22/2010
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
12/22/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
12/06/2010
Caroline Fife, Co-Editor of TWC, cfife@intellicure.com
Caroline Fife, Co-Editor of TWC, cfif...
Just when you think you have seen it all, a patient walks in with something incredible. This week I saw a patient with a venous stasis ulcer of the hand. He has had lymphedema of the arm ever since a deep venous thrombosis of the subclavian...
Just when you think you have seen it all, a patient walks in with something incredible. This week I saw a patient with a venous stasis ulcer of the hand. He has had lymphedema of the arm ever since a deep venous thrombosis of the subclavian...
Just when you think you have...
12/06/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
Insights
Product Spotlight
12/22/2010
The wound care industry has seen a proliferation of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy products in the past few years, as companies rush to capitalize on the widespread acceptance of the therapy.
California-based Spiracur, Inc. believes...
The wound care industry has seen a proliferation of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy products in the past few years, as companies rush to capitalize on the widespread acceptance of the therapy.
California-based Spiracur, Inc. believes...
The wound care industry has...
12/22/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
Product Roundup
12/22/2010
Net Health Systems, Inc.
Website: www.woundexpert.com
Contact: (800) 411-6281, ext. 3
sales@woundexpert.com
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Founded: 1993
Product Lines: WoundExpert is a web-based software application, available in a scalable,...
Net Health Systems, Inc.
Website: www.woundexpert.com
Contact: (800) 411-6281, ext. 3
sales@woundexpert.com
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Founded: 1993
Product Lines: WoundExpert is a web-based software application, available in a scalable,...
Net Health Systems,...
12/22/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
12/22/2010
Val Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS
Val Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS
It is a well-accepted fact that compression therapy is considered the standard of care for patients with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). In the absence of significant lower extremity arterial disease, the use of different types of...
It is a well-accepted fact that compression therapy is considered the standard of care for patients with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). In the absence of significant lower extremity arterial disease, the use of different types of...
It is a well-accepted fact that...
12/22/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
12/06/2010
Eva M. Sevick-Muraca, PhD; John C. Rasmussen, PhD; and Caroline E. Fife, MD
Eva M. Sevick-Muraca, PhD; John C. Ra...
Normal wound repair and tissue homeostasis depends upon an orchestrated balance between (i) the venous circulatory system that drains water and small proteins and (ii) the lymphatic circulatory system that additionally transports...
Normal wound repair and tissue homeostasis depends upon an orchestrated balance between (i) the venous circulatory system that drains water and small proteins and (ii) the lymphatic circulatory system that additionally transports...
Normal wound repair and tissue...
12/06/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
12/06/2010
Standard treatment to heal a single chronic wound typically averages more than six months of intensive effort with costs exceeding an unsustainable $27,000.1 Even more problematic, standard care does little to avoid wound recurrence, which...
Standard treatment to heal a single chronic wound typically averages more than six months of intensive effort with costs exceeding an unsustainable $27,000.1 Even more problematic, standard care does little to avoid wound recurrence, which...
Standard treatment to heal a...
12/06/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
Feature
Clinician's Report
12/06/2010
Clinician’s Report: Covering Compression
CIRCAID MEDICAL
www.CIRCAID.COM
(800) 247-2243
Ulcer Care/Wound Care
1. Do you offer an ulcer care kit? (Single stockings with an inner-liner for patients with wounds). Not in the traditional sense of...
Clinician’s Report: Covering Compression
CIRCAID MEDICAL
www.CIRCAID.COM
(800) 247-2243
Ulcer Care/Wound Care
1. Do you offer an ulcer care kit? (Single stockings with an inner-liner for patients with wounds). Not in the traditional sense of...
Clinician’s Report: Covering...
12/06/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
Infographic
12/06/2010
Today’s Wound Clinic interviewed Geoff MacKay, President and CEO of Organogenesis (Canton, Mass), in this Q&A style interview. MacKay, has held the position since December 2003.
Today’s Wound Clinic interviewed Geoff MacKay, President and CEO of Organogenesis (Canton, Mass), in this Q&A style interview. MacKay, has held the position since December 2003.
Today’s Wound Clinic interviewed...
12/06/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
Infographic
12/06/2010
Today’s Wound Clinic interviewed Russell Peterson, Ph.D.; Technical Director, BioMedical Systems, ETC, in this Q&A style interview. Peterson has been with ETC for the past 13 years.
Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you personally...
Today’s Wound Clinic interviewed Russell Peterson, Ph.D.; Technical Director, BioMedical Systems, ETC, in this Q&A style interview. Peterson has been with ETC for the past 13 years.
Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you personally...
Today’s Wound Clinic interviewed...
12/06/2010
Today's Wound Clinic
