Wound Infection Poster

Adding a Hypochlorous Acid Preserved Wound Cleanser to Your Inpatient Wound Care Protocol: Standardization Examples, A Case Series

Introduction: Approximately 2% of all hospitalized patients worldwide have a chronic wound, and older adult patients are at highest risk, because aging impairs the healing process.1 As ma...

05/26/2022

Evaluation of a Novel Peptide-Based Dressing on Infected Wounds with Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using a Partial Thickness Porcine Wound Model

Antimicrobial peptides are well-known for their antimicrobial and antibiofilm properties in vitro, however their efficacy in vivo is limited. 1 The goal of this study was to determine the...

05/26/2022

Development of Peptide-Based Wound Dressings for Prevention and Management of Infected Wounds

Reported here is the development of peptide-based wound dressings, a polyurethane foam dressing and a collagen dressing substrate both containing host defense peptides (HDPs)1-2 as active...

05/26/2022

Treatment of Postoperative Wounds with Infected Implanted Hardware After Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of Fractures or Skeletal Stabilization with Plasma/Nitric Oxide Therapy Without Removal of the Hardware

Operative insertion of hardware has become a standard practice for the treatment of many fractures and stabilization of skeletal components following neurosurgical procedures. Unfortunate...

05/26/2022

Intact Fragmented Fish Skin Graft as Novel Approach to Filling Sinus Pilonidal Wounds: A Case Series

Introduction: To assess the feasibility of using intact fish skin graft (FSG) to heal chronic post-surgical sinus pilonidal wounds. Pilonidal disease is a common condition of the skin and...

05/26/2022

Is My Wound Infected? Use of Thermal Imaging to Assess Wound Infection

Introduction: Because the traditional signs of infection, rubor, dolor, calor, and tumor, are shared between incipient infections and aseptic inflammation, discriminating between these en...

05/26/2022

The Antibacterial Activity of a Novel Biomaterial Against Key Wound Pathogens: Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Aim: The colonization of a wound by microorganisms typically occurs as a continuum extending from contamination, to colonization, and infection. The predominant microbial species observed...

05/04/2022

Aurine Tricarboxylic Acid (ATA) Disrupts DNase-Resistant Wound Biofilm Formed by Persister Clinical Isolate Bacteria

BACKGROUND: Biofilms represent a major threat to health care, and it is a clinical challenge to manage infected wounds resistant to antibiotic. Persistent bacterial phenotypes such as sma...

08/19/2021

Evaluation of a Cyanoacrylate Liquid Skin Protectant for the Treatment of Incontinence Associated Dermatitis and Intertrigo

Introduction: Skin can be compromised by moisture-associated skin damage (MASD), intertrigo (skin rash), and incontinence associated dermatitis (IAD).1 In a large patient survey in the US...

08/19/2021

Microbiology and Outcomes of Pedal Abscesses with No Wounds

Objective: There is very little published concerning pedal infections without associated wounds in adults. The objective is to report the microbiology and outcomes of a cohort of 16 patie...

08/19/2021

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A New Paradigm Shift in Wound Care: Intimate Conversations about Missed Opportunities to Help Rethink What’s Possible with Early Initiation of Instillation Therapy and Beyond

Presented by: Luis G. Fernández, MD, KHS, KCOEG, FACS, FASAS, FCCP, FCCM, FICS; Paul J. Kim, DPM, MS, FACFAS; and Saeed A. Chowdhry, MD, FACS. It is known in the literature about the clinical and economic benefits of instillation therapy, ranging from reductions in hospital stays to fe...