Atypical and Complex Wounds
Skin and Soft-Tissue Issues in Persons Who Inject Drugs
October 20, 2023
Barbara Pieper, PhD, CNS-BC, CWOCN, FAAN, WOCNF shared that drug abuse or addiction affects millions of individuals each year in the United States. In 2019, 20.4 million people met the criteria for a ...
Skin Tears: What Are the First Steps?
August 4, 2023
Editor's Note: What are the first steps to treating a skin tear? In this interview, Emily Greenstein, APRN, CNP, CWON-AP, FACCWS describes some best practices for skin tear management, such as marking...
Skinfold Assessment, Management, and Moisture
April 1, 2022
The literature suggests that patients with a high degree of adiposity are more at risk for inflammatory conditions, and the numbers of these patients continue to rise. Increased adipose tissue may imp...
Terms to Know: Complex Wound Management
February 28, 2021
Angiogenesis: The complex process in which the growth of normal, stable, and functional vessels is critically dependent on the coordinated interplay in space and time of different cell types and growt...
Terms to Know: COVID-19 and Wound Care
May 31, 2020
By the WoundSource Editors
COVID-19: The name of the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The abbreviation COVID-19 is short for coronavirus disease 2...
