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...
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...
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...
Operative insertion of hardware has become a standard practice for the treatment of many fractures and stabilization of skeletal components following neurosurgical procedures. Unfortunate...
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...
Introduction: Because the traditional signs of infection, rubor, dolor, calor, and tumor, are shared between incipient infections and aseptic inflammation, discriminating between these en...
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...
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...
The use of hypochlorous acid (HOCL) in the preparation of the wound bed has become an increasingly well-accepted practice. Several guidelines have indicated that HOCL cleansers have the ...
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...
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...