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Today's Wound Clinic
02/18/2015
Through its joining of a new ACO, Kindred Healthcare’s outpatient wound clinic is among those players helping the industry set valuable standards.
Today's Wound Clinic
06/18/2014
This article will examine the benefits of exercise for patients living with nonhealing, chronic wounds in an attempt to assist the practitioner in developing safe, effective exercise programs for their patients. Additionally, the benefits of incorporating measurable outcomes into an exercise prescription will be discussed.
Today's Wound Clinic
12/13/2016
CMS Launches Online Tool to Assist With Quality Payment Program
Today's Wound Clinic
10/01/2008
William Fife, my father, passed away on October 13, 2008, at the age of 90. He was a hyperbaric physiologist, so I have been around chambers all my life. My earliest memories (late 1960’s) were of the chambers at the School of Aerospace Medicine where he and luminaries like Jeff Davis performed research which laid the foundation for the field of hyperbaric medicine. Although it all seemed routine at the time, a new medical field was being born. Men we knew as friends and colleagues we currently refer to as “The Father of … ,” now that the histories of such things are written. That means that in one ‘clinical generation’ we have identified the physiological rationale for this therapy, defined in large part its clinical spectrum of use, and have begun to establish its cost benefit ratio. It began with a fairly simplistic understanding of tissue hypoxia. However, we now know that the mechanism of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is far more complex—it can even mitigate ischemia reperfusion injury. This has all happened in less than 50 years—a time where the field of medicine has changed dramatically—including how we gather and weigh scientific evidence.
Today's Wound Clinic
06/09/2011
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Today's Wound Clinic
03/03/2011
A few weeks ago, February 12, we celebrated the 202nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. It is also the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin: both were born on the same day in 1809 and both captained an idea through turbulent waters—and won. Stephen J. Gould points out that major evolutionary changes are occasioned by single dramatic events, for example, the Cambrian explosion and the American Civil War. I am not claiming a tectonic shift, but we are on the cusp of an evolutionary leap in our world—a small one—but nonetheless significant.
Today's Wound Clinic
09/15/2016
This article provides current treatment advice as well as recent patient case studies.
Today's Wound Clinic
02/13/2015
Clinicians should focus more targeted efforts toward combating chronic, biofilm-related infections and paying more attention to their impact on patients and our collective health system.
Today's Wound Clinic
12/18/2012
New HCPCS Codes Awarded for Wound Care
A pair of procedures by Spiracur Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, for the delivery of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has gained Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) approval by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The HCPCS codes G0456 and G0457, which apply to the company’s mechanically-powered SNaP® Wound Care System, provide a payment mechanism for NPWT procedures furnished to beneficiaries through means unrelated to the durable medical equipment (DME) benefit, officials said. The new codes are for clinical services using a mechanically powered device, not DME, including provision of cartridge and dressing(s), topical applications(s), wound assessment, and instructions for ongoing care. Code G0456 applies to total wound(s) surface area less than or equal to 50 sq cm. Code G0457 applies to total wound(s) surface area greater than 50 sq cm.