Adjunctive Therapies

by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Pete Seeger died a year ago last January at the age of 94. Reading a tribute to the folk singer, I ran across his most memorable tune, "Where have all th...

By Christine Shettel, RN, BSN, WCC, DAPWCA, PWRC Hyperbaric medicine has been used in wound care for over 50 years. As wound care professionals, we are saving patient’s lives, and preserving limbs ...

By Lindsay D. Andronaco RN, BSN, CWCN, WOC, DAPWCA, FAACWS The use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), according to Medicare, is a modality in which the entire body is exposed to oxygen under incr...

By Aletha Tippett MD It would be interesting to know how many people reading this blog have tried laser therapy for wound healing. I suspect not many, and that is unfortunate because laser therapy ...

By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC I was thinking back to the days when I worked as a hyperbaric technologist. Hyperbaric medicine has significantly evolved over the past decade...

The process of wound healing ideally progresses from inflammation to epithelialization and, finally, remodeling. If at any point bacterial (or fungal) colonization becomes prominent, the process of wo...

by Kelly Byrd-Jenkins, CWS What you do in the outpatient center is not easy, and not everyone is doing it. In many cases, they'd prefer to let us decipher this challenging demographic's path to hea...

By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN Radiation necrosis can be defined as cell death as a result of high doses of radiation as used with aggressive tumors. The dead cells caused by the loss of blood flo...

By Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Journal Review Club The treatment of wounds has advanced significantly over the years and has involved a variety of therapy options, but the percen...

By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Recently, I had the pleasure of attending Puccini's opera Turandot at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. In my favorite scene, young prince Calef comes...