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- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
One of the most important contributions of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) is the ability to increase the knowledge of our members, which ultimately leads to improved patient outcomes. As part of that goal, each year the AAWC looks to its leaders to provide insightful, provocative articles to Ostomy Wound Management that challenge, educate, and engage our members. As President of the AAWC, I am proud to present readers with this special AAWC issue.
- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
I have been with the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) for about 10 years, so I hope you will oblige my getting personal.
- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
Silver-containing dressings are used for managing wound bioburden and are available as alginates, foams, films, hydrocolloids, hydrogels, contact layers, and collagens. Typically, a silver dressing is chosen because 1) the wound is at risk for infection, 2) the wound demonstrates signs of infection (and systemic antibiotic therapy has been instituted), or 3) the wound shows no signs of improvement after 14 days of other dressing use.
- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
Venous leg ulcers affect more than 600,000 people in the United States per year1 and make up nearly 80% of all leg ulcers. 2 Wounds caused by venous insufficiency tend to heal slowly and often recur. 3 In addition, venous leg ulcer pain is often a major concern for patients and poses a challenge for practitioners.4
- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Kahlil Gibran - Issue Number:2008;54(11)
Healthcare professionals need evidence-based strategies and guidelines for care to optimize pressure ulcer prevention and management. Differences among pressure ulcer guidelines confuse caregivers, reducing consistency of care.
- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
Pyoderma gangrenosum (PD) is a rare, chronic, relapsing, ulcerative, neutrophilic cutaneous disease and may be difficult to recognize. It is not uncommon for PD to be mistakenly diagnosed as vascular occlusive or venous disease, vasculitis, cancer, infection, exogenous tissue injury, or other inflammatory disorders. A 55-year-old woman with a 5-year history of a very painful and enlarging ulcer presented at the authors’ clinic. Previously, based on an original diagnosis of venous ulcer, the wound had been surgically debrided and managed with saline-soaked gauze and compression therapy.
- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
Wounds cause pain but the consequences of wound pain remain largely unknown.
- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
Because of the high cost of some wound management regimens, payors may require that moist wound therapies be used before other treatment approaches, such as negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), are implemented but few studies have investigated the effect of delayed initiation of NPWT on patient outcomes.
- Issue Number:2008;54(11)
Pressure ulcers are localized skin injuries secondary to unrelieved pressure or friction. Patients with immobility issues are at increased risk for developing pressure ulcers. In 2004, stricter federal regulations for prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers in institutional settings — eg, long-term care facilities — were introduced. Effective, low-cost treatments for pressure ulcers are needed; acoustic pressure wound therapy (APWT), a noncontact, low-frequency, therapeutic ultrasound system, is one option.
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