Volume 7 Issue 2 - March 2013
Column
Ask the Board
03/14/2013
In this exclusive column, Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) offers our readers the chance to ask industry-related questions to our expert editorial board members. This month’s questions come from multiple sources. Q: “How much attention should...
In this exclusive column, Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) offers our readers the chance to ask industry-related questions to our expert editorial board members. This month’s questions come from multiple sources. Q: “How much attention should...
In this exclusive column,...
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Business Briefs
03/14/2013
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,...
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Letter from the Editor
03/14/2013
Caroline Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS
Caroline Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS
As I think about the national epidemic of diabetes and my own struggles in caring for these patients, I’m convinced this is an example of the emerging theory of “simplexity” — a concept that considers a potential relationship between...
As I think about the national epidemic of diabetes and my own struggles in caring for these patients, I’m convinced this is an example of the emerging theory of “simplexity” — a concept that considers a potential relationship between...
As I think about the national...
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News Update
03/14/2013
Spotlight On: Diabetes
Children’s Hospital Nets $5 Million for Diabetes Center
A $5 million donation from the Lift a Life Foundation has helped fund the launch of a $12 million comprehensive diabetes center at Kosair Children’s Hospital,...
Spotlight On: Diabetes
Children’s Hospital Nets $5 Million for Diabetes Center
A $5 million donation from the Lift a Life Foundation has helped fund the launch of a $12 million comprehensive diabetes center at Kosair Children’s Hospital,...
Spotlight On:...
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Abstract Award Winners Announced for SAWC 2013
Officials with HMP Communications Holdings, LLC, Malvern, PA, have announced the abstract award winners for the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring/Wound Healing Society...
Abstract Award Winners Announced for SAWC 2013
Officials with HMP Communications Holdings, LLC, Malvern, PA, have announced the abstract award winners for the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring/Wound Healing Society...
Abstract Award Winners Announced...
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Provider Profile
03/14/2013
Editor’s Note: Desmond Bell is a member of the Today’s Wound Clinic editorial board and co-founder/executive director of the Save A Leg, Save A Life Foundation, Jacksonville, FL. This interview was originally published in the journal Ostomy...
Editor’s Note: Desmond Bell is a member of the Today’s Wound Clinic editorial board and co-founder/executive director of the Save A Leg, Save A Life Foundation, Jacksonville, FL. This interview was originally published in the journal Ostomy...
Editor’s Note: Desmond Bell is a...
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Jan. 13, 1938 – Feb. 1, 2013
Sometimes, life allows us to learn from a person so gifted and gracious his presence remains even after he leaves the room … or the planet. That was Morris Kerstein. As one of the world’s pre-eminent vascular...
Jan. 13, 1938 – Feb. 1, 2013
Sometimes, life allows us to learn from a person so gifted and gracious his presence remains even after he leaves the room … or the planet. That was Morris Kerstein. As one of the world’s pre-eminent vascular...
Jan. 13, 1938 – Feb. 1,...
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The No. 1 cause of non-traumatic lower limb amputations and the seventh-leading cause of death in the US,1 diabetes has a large presence in the majority of wound care clinics. This is where comprehensively educated, trained, and...
The No. 1 cause of non-traumatic lower limb amputations and the seventh-leading cause of death in the US,1 diabetes has a large presence in the majority of wound care clinics. This is where comprehensively educated, trained, and...
The No. 1 cause of...
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Tere Sigler, PT, CWS, CLT-LANA
Tere Sigler, PT, CWS, CLT-LANA
As a physical therapist, my initial experience in wound care was limited to hospital rehabilitation departments, where blood glucose monitoring is generally not available. I had always discussed the relationship between wound healing and...
As a physical therapist, my initial experience in wound care was limited to hospital rehabilitation departments, where blood glucose monitoring is generally not available. I had always discussed the relationship between wound healing and...
As a physical therapist, my...
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Donna J. Cartwright, MPA, RHIA, CCS, RAC, FAHIMA
The diagnosis of diabetes (and its related complications) is one of the most common diagnoses that occurs in wound care clinics. As many may have already heard, the US will convert from the current ICD-9-CM coding for diagnoses to the new...
The diagnosis of diabetes (and its related complications) is one of the most common diagnoses that occurs in wound care clinics. As many may have already heard, the US will convert from the current ICD-9-CM coding for diagnoses to the new...
The diagnosis of diabetes (and...
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