Considering the prevalence of chronic wounds and pressure ulcers in long-term care—and the physical and financial toll that these wounds take on residents and providers—few could deny the potential ...

Peter L. Salgo, MD: Well, we’ve been talking about wounds, who gets them? And talking about how we should initiate treatment and what the protocols are. Let’s get a little more specific. Wound care ...

With the increasing adoption of patient centered care, initiatives to maintain and improve skin integrity in long-term care have highlighted awareness of skin integrity. “Even though care has come a ...

Millions of Americans live with wounds that fail to heal on their own. Some result from diabetes or surgery, while others linger for weeks despite standard care; regardless of cause, more than six ...

The SNMH Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center has combined with a traveling wound care specialist to assure continuing care for local skilled nursing facility patients. Dr. Michael Montgomery, ...

Getting a scrape or a cut can seem like a minor medical issue, but if it gets infected, that could lead to bigger problems. Ryan Dadds — a physician assistant with the Wound Care Department at The ...

Former space shuttle tile mechanic Dr. Lauren Romeo liked her job in the program, but started looking at other areas, beginning as a volunteer surgical tech for a large animal veterinarian and ...

Wound care specialists, who treat burn victims and diabetics with foot ulcers, say the move to end coverage if a dressing is made of more than 50% honey by weight is arbitrary and makes no sense from ...

BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Memorial Hospital has announced Dr. Gregory Gadowski has become a Certified Wound Specialist Physician after having recently passed the national board certification exam of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getting a scrape or a cut can seem like a minor medical issue, but if it gets infected, that could lead to bigger problems. Ryan ...