Volume 2 Issue 1 - Winter 2008
Column
Business Briefs
09/25/2009
Hospital-owned outpatient wound care departments (HOPDs) must routinely check their Medicare contractors’ websites for updates to their Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) and Articles that pertain to the application of compression...
Hospital-owned outpatient wound care departments (HOPDs) must routinely check their Medicare contractors’ websites for updates to their Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) and Articles that pertain to the application of compression...
Hospital-owned outpatient...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
09/25/2009
Val Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS,
Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS
Val Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS,
Dot Weir, ...
Mr. RU Swollen is referred to your clinic from his primary care provider. He walks into the clinic with an antalgic gait then rests in the waiting room. On examination, both lower extremities are edematous, the left greater than the right. He...
Mr. RU Swollen is referred to your clinic from his primary care provider. He walks into the clinic with an antalgic gait then rests in the waiting room. On examination, both lower extremities are edematous, the left greater than the right. He...
Mr. RU Swollen is referred to...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
System Check Up
09/25/2009
A 20-Year Perspective On Venous Ulcer Management The majority of patients afflicted with chronic wounds suffer from lower extremity ulcers caused by chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) that affects approximately 2.5 million people in the US....
A 20-Year Perspective On Venous Ulcer Management The majority of patients afflicted with chronic wounds suffer from lower extremity ulcers caused by chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) that affects approximately 2.5 million people in the US....
A 20-Year Perspective On Venous...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
09/23/2009
Caroline Fifes’s commentary on the state of healing of venous leg ulcers over the years evoked several questions. She described the “frustrating 15%,” describing the relatively small change in healing rates of this population of patients...
Caroline Fifes’s commentary on the state of healing of venous leg ulcers over the years evoked several questions. She described the “frustrating 15%,” describing the relatively small change in healing rates of this population of patients...
Caroline Fifes’s commentary on...
09/23/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
