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Pressure Ulcer Prevention a Quality Improvement Project

Introduction: Despite the ongoing attempts to prevent Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs), there is still a significant amount of HAPUs that occurs still. This poster presentation ...

05/26/2022

Clinician Experience Using a Novel Copper Oxide-Impregnated Wound Dressing

Introduction: Copper ions play an important role in the physiologic processes of wound healing such as angiogenesis, growth factor induction, and extracellular matrix remodeling1. Copper ...

05/26/2022

Preventing Pressure Injuries in Critical Care with Air Overlays and Nursing Satisfaction

Background: A pressure injury is localized damage to the skin and underlying soft tissue. Pressure injuries occur as a result of intense or prolonged pressure, or pressure in combination ...

05/26/2022

Clinician Experience Using a Novel Silver-Containing Gelling Fiber Primary Dressing

Introduction: Management of exudate and infection are two important but challenging principles in the treatment of chronic wounds. Excessive exudate or high bacterial burden in wounds may...

05/26/2022

Self-Proning Kits to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries in Self-Proning Covid-19 Patients

Introduction: In July 2021, there was an increase in hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) on patients self-proning with Covid-19. Patients with Covid-19 had to self-prone themselves...

05/26/2022

“WAMM” Wounds Across the Ministry

OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE: Skin care injuries, also known as wounds, “pressure injuries”, “decubitus”, or “ulcers” are a growing silent epidemic impacting over 6.5 million people in the US alone....

05/26/2022

Systematic review of cellular and tissue products and Indirect treatment comparison between cellular/acellular and amniotic/non-amniotic allografts in the management of diabetic foot ulcers.

Introduction: Our study aimed to compare the efficacy of cell and tissue products (CTP) dressings in the management of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) based on published randomized control tr...

05/26/2022

Benefits of Novel Textile and Short Stretch bandaging on Venous Wounds

Background: Phlebo-lymphedema occurs as a result of chronic venous insufficiencies in the venous values failing t prevent retrograde flow of venous blood during muscle pump activity. This...

05/26/2022

The Effectiveness of Multimedia Education to Improve Diabetic Foot Care Knowledge, Practice, and Wound Healing

Diabetic patients should receive education on diabetic foot care as part of self-care to reduce the risk of diabetic foot complications. At the project site, a gap existed among diabetic ...

05/26/2022

Case Studies of The Use Of Non-Invasive Pulsed Acoustic Cellular Expression (PACE) System Reduces Wound Area And Speeds Wound Closure In Patients Admitted At COVID 19 ICU Sets

Background: Facing the international background of pandemia new challenges inside COVID 19´s ITU services are raising in Brazil. One of the most important is the effective wound managemen...

05/26/2022

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