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Healing Beyond Expectations: The Use of Innovative Moisture Management Dressings for Chronic Wounds in Home Care

Introduction: Chronic wounds in the home care setting can be resource-intensive and the complexity of the wound is often compounded by the presence of multiple comorbidities.1 External fa...

11/01/2024

Management of Exposed Hardware with Fish Skin Graft

Introduction: Surgical wound dehiscence is a separation of wound edges due to a failure of proper healing that typically starts at 5 to 8 days following surgery. The causes of dehiscence ...

11/01/2024

Application of Fragmented Fish Skin Graft* on a Nonhealing Diabetic Foot Ulcer for a Diabetic Patient with Neuropathy and Chronic Kidney Disease

Introduction: Fish skin graft (FSG) is a xenograft derived from Atlantic cod that augments wound healing1. This case evaluates FSG* in a patient with non healing diabetic foot ulcer (DFU...

11/01/2024

The Use of a Novel Superabsorbent Dressing to Optimize Healing with Skin Substitute Grafts

Introduction: The BIOMES framework (Blood Flow, Infection Control, Off-Loading, control of Metabolic/co-morbidities, management of Exudate/moisture/bioburden, and understanding of the pat...

11/01/2024

Initial Experience with a Novel Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Peel and Place Dressing in Lower Extremity Wounds

Introduction: The application of negative pressure wound therapy to support healing of lower extremity wounds is well-documented.1 A recently available multilayer peel and place dressing ...

11/01/2024

Cryopreserved adipose tissue (CAT) for biological offloading of recalcitrant foot ulcers (FUs)

Introduction: Recalcitrant foot ulcers are increasing in prevalence and often exhaust conventional conservative measures. The risk of a diabetic with a foot ulceration to proceed to an a...

11/01/2024

Use of Aseptically Processed Placental Allograft and Meshed Reticular Acellular Dermal Matrix as Wound Bed Stabilizer and Scaffolding to Support Deep Soft Tissue Reconstruction

Introduction: Trauma to the extremities represents one of the most common injury forms leading to large, full thickness soft tissue loss. Achieving closure after extensive debridement of ...

11/01/2024

Use of Silver Collagen Dressings with Outpatient Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

Introduction: Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has been well documented in the management of a variety of wound types. Traditionally, negative pressure is delivered via foam dressin...

11/01/2024

Utilizing Transforming Powder Dressing on Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers Refractory to Standard of Care Management: Outcomes of Three Patients

Introduction: Venous leg ulcers (VLU), account for 70% of all leg ulcers, occurring in 1-2% of the general population and in 4% of people 65 years of age and older.1. The average healing ...

11/01/2024

Wound Management of Severe Necrotizing Fasciitis

Introduction: 57-year-old Caucasian male with a past medical history of RCA STEMI and reduced EF%, admitted to the hospital with diagnosed necrotizing fasciitis infection involving his pe...

11/01/2024