Volume 7 Issue 4 - May 2013
Feature
Infographic
05/16/2013
For this month’s feature, Today’s Wound Clinic spoke with Mitch Odahowski, vice president. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you been in wound care, and how did you enter this area of healthcare? Mitch Odahowski (MO): Most of my...
For this month’s feature, Today’s Wound Clinic spoke with Mitch Odahowski, vice president. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you been in wound care, and how did you enter this area of healthcare? Mitch Odahowski (MO): Most of my...
For this month’s feature,...
05/16/2013
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News Update
05/16/2013
California Wound Center Earns Warriner Excellence Award
Sonora (CA) Regional Medical Center has received the Robert A. Warriner III, MD Center of Excellence award for wound healing. According to facility officials, the center earned the...
California Wound Center Earns Warriner Excellence Award
Sonora (CA) Regional Medical Center has received the Robert A. Warriner III, MD Center of Excellence award for wound healing. According to facility officials, the center earned the...
California Wound Center Earns...
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05/16/2013
Tere Sigler, PT, CWS, CLT-LANA
Tere Sigler, PT, CWS, CLT-LANA
My initial exposure to wound care as a physical therapist (PT) was providing whirlpool treatments on an inpatient basis. (And, yes, this was back in the days of Betadine.®) There was not much thought given back then to pain management — if...
My initial exposure to wound care as a physical therapist (PT) was providing whirlpool treatments on an inpatient basis. (And, yes, this was back in the days of Betadine.®) There was not much thought given back then to pain management — if...
My initial exposure to wound...
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05/16/2013
Treatment of pain may soon become more challenging within outpatient wound clinics. Abuse, misuse, and diversion have led the FDA to consider reclassifying hydrocodone combinations, traditionally the “workhorses of pain management,” as...
Treatment of pain may soon become more challenging within outpatient wound clinics. Abuse, misuse, and diversion have led the FDA to consider reclassifying hydrocodone combinations, traditionally the “workhorses of pain management,” as...
Treatment of pain may soon...
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05/16/2013
Jennifer Hurlow, GNP-BC, CWOCN
Jennifer Hurlow, GNP-BC, CWOCN
It’s become common knowledge that wound healing requires a holistic approach. Any healthcare provider caring for the wound patient must consider the wound itself and all existing comorbidities beyond the wound in order to evaluate the...
It’s become common knowledge that wound healing requires a holistic approach. Any healthcare provider caring for the wound patient must consider the wound itself and all existing comorbidities beyond the wound in order to evaluate the...
It’s become common knowledge...
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05/16/2013
Linda Miller, BSN, RN & Chris Morrison, MD, FCCWS, FACHM
Linda Miller, BSN, RN & Chris Mor...
There is a continually growing need to shift traditional wound care practice into what is now considered “best practice” and “advanced wound care” with the availability of evidence-based information. With this growing body of evidence-based...
There is a continually growing need to shift traditional wound care practice into what is now considered “best practice” and “advanced wound care” with the availability of evidence-based information. With this growing body of evidence-based...
There is a continually growing...
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05/16/2013
Caroline E. Fife, MD, & Kevin Yankowsky, JD
Caroline E. Fife, MD, & Kevin Yan...
It’s already been a busy day in the wound clinic when a nurse rushes in to hand the physician a stack of home care nursing orders to sign. The forms, some of them more than five pages long, have been generated by various home health...
It’s already been a busy day in the wound clinic when a nurse rushes in to hand the physician a stack of home care nursing orders to sign. The forms, some of them more than five pages long, have been generated by various home health...
It’s already been a busy day...
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Column
Business Briefs
05/16/2013
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 authors 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 authors do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
05/16/2013
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Letter from the Editor
05/16/2013
Joe Darrah, Managing Editor
Joe Darrah, Managing Editor
The tragic events of April 15 in Boston provided us all a too-common reminder: We’re not really safe. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not any time soon. Threats of terrorist attack can no longer be considered anything other than imminent. Will a...
The tragic events of April 15 in Boston provided us all a too-common reminder: We’re not really safe. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not any time soon. Threats of terrorist attack can no longer be considered anything other than imminent. Will a...
The tragic events of April 15...
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Ask the Board
05/16/2013
In this exclusive column, TWC offers readers the chance to ask industry-related questions to our expert editorial board members. This month’s question comes from Orlando, FL.
Q: Do you agree or disagree with some insurance companies not...
In this exclusive column, TWC offers readers the chance to ask industry-related questions to our expert editorial board members. This month’s question comes from Orlando, FL.
Q: Do you agree or disagree with some insurance companies not...
In this exclusive column, TWC...
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