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Challenges of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections: A Multidiscipline Approach

Introduction: Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI) are characterized clinically by fulminant tissue destruction, systemic signs of toxicity, and high mortality. According to Hakkarai...

05/26/2022

The development of an accredited Ex Vivo Burn Wound Model for pre-clinical efficacy testing of antimicrobial agents.

Whilst survival rates have improved over the past few decades due to advances in modern medicine (Rafla and Tredget, 2011), infection is still the leading cause of morbidity and mortality...

05/26/2022

Dealing With Toe Edema: The Art of Toe Bandaging

Background: Although toe swelling has been observed clinically, traditional compression applications do not address. Published literature initially cited toe swelling was secondary to com...

05/26/2022

The Effects of an Enzymatic Hydrogel on 3rd Degree Burn Wounds in a Porcine Model

Serious burn injuries result in total loss of skin surfaces that can lead to subsequent infections and delayed healing.1 Patients with unexcised full thickness burns have an increased ris...

05/26/2022

The laboratory performance of gelling fiber wound dressings tested by means of clinically-relevant robotic wound simulators

The effectiveness of wound dressing performance in exudate management is commonly investigated in simple, non-realistic laboratory setups, and typically, where dressings are submersed in ...

05/26/2022

TWO Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) System Abilities are Compared for Accurate Pressure Delivery and Efficient Fluid Removal, Is there a Difference?

INTRODUCTION: Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) systems must have certain technical capabilities to effectively deliver therapy. The International Consensus Review for NPWT Systems, ...

05/26/2022

Using Standardized Testing to Delineate How Materials and Construction Impact Performance Characteristics of Support Surfaces to Enhance Objective Clinical Decision-making for Pressure Injury Prevention

Introduction: Clinicians are challenged with having objective data to choose support surfaces that will offer the most ideal clinical performance for patient populations. Support surfaces...

05/26/2022

A How-To Guide to Improving Wound Reconstruction Outcomes Employing a Novel Prehabilitation Protocol

Introduction: Wound reconstruction may be associated with a significant decline in functional capacity. While most procedures are not considered "major", some of these procedures do carry...

05/26/2022

A Suture Retention Device* used to Primarily Close Challenging Stage IV Heel Wounds – Case Series

Introduction: Heel wounds are among the most challenging due to their distal location, inelasticity of local tissue, the tendency of suture to tear plantar skin, and often high comorbidit...

05/26/2022

Robust Durability and Resistance to Degradation of a Native Type I Collagen Matrix with PHMB in vitro

Wound fluid is an essential component of the normal wound healing process that first appears in the wound during the inflammatory phase. There are significant differences in the wound flu...

05/26/2022

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