Wound Care

Negative Pressure Wound Devices Draw FDA Notice, Advice

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has notified health professionals, and advised patients, about rare but serious complications -- including deaths -- from the use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT).Negative pressure wound therapy devices can help in the healing ...More
December 10, 2009
Posted in News
Surface Bacteria Maintain Skin's Healthy Balance

On the skin's surface, bacteria are abundant, diverse and constant, but inflammation is undesirable. Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine now shows that the normal bacteria living on the skin surface trigger a pathway that prevents ...More
November 23, 2009
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A Second Skin Helps Wound Healing

Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of clinicians, about 70 percent of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University (TAU) could cut that number dramatically.Meital ...More
November 17, 2009
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PuriCore Announces Clinical Results for Vashe Wound Therapy in Post-Operative Care of Skin Grafts on Burns

PuriCore announces results of a randomized clinical trial showing the potential effectiveness of its Vashe Wound Therapy in the post-operative care of split-thickness skin grafts for burn injuries. Vashe Wound Therapy is a medical device that produces a biocompatible ...More
November 12, 2009
Posted in News
Managing and Treating Wound Infection: Taking a Holistic Approach

Managing wound infection requires a holistic process, from assessment strategies to determine the level and severity of bacteria present, to identifying and understanding a patient’s particular risk factors. This requires a team approach, bringing together clinicians ...More
October 15, 2009
Posted in Articles
Dermastream Aims to Wash Away Bacteria From Bedsores, Chronic Ulcers

The Dermastream device, as it will be used for a leg wound.More than 6 million people in the U.S. suffer from persistent wounds — open sores that never seem to heal or, once apparently healed, return with a vengeance. The bedridden elderly and infirm are prone to ...More
August 26, 2009
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Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care; Implications for Pressure Ulcers, Other Patient-Care Concerns

A major new statistical review of 82 individual research studies has revealed that nonprofit nursing homes deliver, on average, higher quality care than for-profit nursing homes. The findings could have a bearing on the present debate about the role of for-profit firms in ...More
August 19, 2009
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New Approach to Wound Healing May be Easy on Skin but Hard on Bacteria

In a presentation today, Aug. 19, to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach to wound healing that could take advantage of silver’s antibacterial ...More
August 19, 2009
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Researchers Demystify Acinetobacter baumannii

Tao Weitao, a researcher in the College of Sciences' Department of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio is making great strides in a project that was funded one year ago by the San Antonio Area Foundation. The professor in the South Texas Center for Emerging ...More
August 17, 2009
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, PPE & Standard Precautions
Disposable Medical Supplies Demand to Reach $59 Billion in 2013

U.S. demand for disposable medical supplies will increase 4.6 percent annually to $59 billion in 2013. The best growth opportunities are anticipated in intermittent catheters for urinary drainage; dry powder inhalers, prefilled syringes and transdermal patches for drug ...More
August 12, 2009
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