Chronic Wound Care
NOVEMBER IS CHRONIC WOUND CARE MONTH For this month's WoundSource Practice Accelerator series, we are providing education on a variety of topics related to the management of chronic wounds. Scroll below to read this month's white paper and articles, to print out our quick fact sheet, and to sign up for this month's webinar.
Upcoming Webinar
Chronic Wound Care: Getting the Wound Back on Track
Tuesday, November 30Courtney Lyder, BA, BS, MS, ND
Wound healing should progress through the four stages of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. When a wound gets stuck in the inflammation phase, however, healing progress can become static for weeks, months, or even years at a time. There are a number of reasons wound healing can become stalled: infection, inadequate wound bed, poor oxygenation, unmanaged comorbidities, and many more. In order to restart the healing process, these stalling factors must be addressed and corrected. Sometimes standard of care is enough to start the wound healing progress again, but often times, more advanced interventions are needed. This webinar will:
- Review stalling factors in chronic wounds
- Review methods of returning the wound to a healing trajectory
- Review advanced treatment methods and when it is appropriate to use them
White Paper
Chronic Wound Care: What is in Your Toolbox?
Successful healing of chronic wounds begins with accurate identification of the etiology because management varies by wound type. When these wounds fail to respond to standard treatment, wound care professionals should consider using advanced therapeutic modalities. This white paper describes the types of chronic wounds, including their causes, classification, and clinical features. The discussion then turns to best practice advanced wound care treatments—cellular and/or tissue-based products...Fact Sheet
Quick Facts - Chronic Wound Care
If a wound does not decrease in size by 50% in four weeks, it has a 91% chance of not healing in 12 weeks and thus becoming chronic. Chronic wounds are a serious problem that has been made worse by care access issues related to the current pandemic. When standard of care methods fail to promote wound healing, wound care professionals should consider advanced therapies such as cellular and/or tissue-based products, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, electrical stimulation, and negative pressure wound the...Featured Articles
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Reimbursement
Advanced therapeutic devices in wound care can be among your greatest tools for encouraging wound closure. However, it can be disappointing when you may have an advanced modality in mind, but it is denied by the patient’s insurance plan. Or it is simply too expensive to have the patient pay out of p...
Read MoreChronic Wound Care: What Does Your Patient Need?
When working with a person who has been living with a chronic wound, it can be frustrating to try to figure out why the wound isn’t closing as the wound healing model would predict. Not all patients follow the “traditional” timeline. The wound may not progress neatly through the four phases of wound...
Read MoreChronic Wound Care in 2021: Recovering From COVID-19
The last year and a half have proven to be an extreme challenge for many, especially health care providers. There have been lockdowns, quarantine, medical office closures, staffing shortages, and the overall concern of an unknown virus. The fallout from the last year and a half will likely be ongoin...
Read MoreCreating Better Chronic Wound Care Outcomes With Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Managing chronic wounds can be difficult and often includes multiple treatment strategies. Management techniques can vary depending on the size of the wound, comorbidities of the patient, and the underlying etiology. However, many chronic wounds benefit from the application of negative pressure woun...
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