Wound Care

  • ConvaTec Introduces Antimicrobial Dressing for Management of Partial Thickness Burns
    ConvaTec, a leading developer and marketer of medical technologies for community and hospital care, announces the introduction of AQUACEL® Ag BURN dressing, a new wound dressing for the management of partial thickness burns (PTBs) and donor sites. AQUACEL® Ag BURN dressing ...More
    February 9, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Wound Dressing with Ionic Silver Kills Early to Prevent the Spread of Infection
    "Superbug" bacteria are an ever-increasing threat to public health and are among the most difficult to treat. Many have built up a resistance to at least one type of antibiotic and often have the ability to spread readily throughout the environment. These traits contribute ...More
    January 3, 2012
    Posted in News
  • The Benefits of a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers
    Pressure ulcers have become more prevalent in hospitals and nursing homes in the last decade, even though preventative protocols backed by clinical research have been shown to be effective. Pressure ulcers, also known as decubitus ulcers, are skin lesions associated with ...More
    August 10, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • New Sealant Effective in Closing Spinal Wounds Following Surgery
    A gel that creates a watertight seal to close surgical wounds provides a significant advance in the treatment of patients following spinal procedures, effectively sealing spinal wounds 100 percent of the time, a national multicenter randomized study led by researchers at UC ...More
    June 17, 2011
    Posted in News
  • No Healing in a Vacuum
    Negative-pressure wound therapy probably does not promote healing. This is the conclusion of Frank Peinemann and Stefan Sauerland's meta-analysis in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 108[22]: 381-9). In negative-pressure ...More
    June 17, 2011
    Posted in News
  • DrawTex Poster Abstract Wins Award at Symposium for Advanced Wound Care
    SteadMed® Medical, LLC, a healthcare company providing medical devices and products to hospitals, wound care centers, nursing homes and home health agencies, announces that four of its poster abstracts were accepted for review at the Symposium for Advanced Wound Care held ...More
    May 4, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New In Vitro Study Data Show Wound Dressing with Silver Kills Superbugs
    ConvaTec, a leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies for community and hospital care, announces new in vitro study results showing that a wound dressing containing ionic silver is able to kill several strains of highly-resistant bacteria, commonly ...More
    April 15, 2011
    Posted in News
  • MediPlus Wound Care Product Line to Debut at SAWC
    No-cost samples of MediPlus™ advanced wound care products may also be requested online. For more information about MediPlus™, visit www.medipurpose.com/mediplus. For more information about SAWC Spring 2011, visit spring.sawc.net. SAWC is the premier educational wound care ...More
    April 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • 3M Skin & Wound Care Launches Antifungal Cream
    3M Skin & Wound Care has introduced new 3M™ Cavilon™ Antifungal Cream, an easy-to-apply cream that effectively relieves skin discomforts due to fungal infections. Addressing the needs of incontinence caregivers and patients, this new cream offers a soothing solution to ...More
    March 15, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Study Examines Recurrent Wound Botulism in Injection Drug Users
    Botulism is a rare disease and recurrent botulism even more rare. However, in California, recurrent wound botulism among injection drug users has been on the rise and makes up three-quarters of reported cases in the United States. A new study published in Clinical ...More
    February 25, 2011
    Posted in News
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