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By Kathy Gallagher, DNP, APRN-FNP, CMC, UMC, BC, WCC, CWS, FACCWS In 2010, Christiana Care Health System, a 1,000 bed Level I trauma center in Wilmington, Delaware, introduced an acute surgical w...

OCTOBER IS MANAGEMENT OF SURGICAL WOUNDS MONTH For this month's WoundSource Practice Accelerator series, we are providing education on a variety of topics related to surgical wound management. Scrol...

The most common and costly surgical wound complication is surgical site infection (SSI), which has been reported to increase hospital length of stay by approximately 9 days and raise the cost of hospi...

By Kathy Gallagher, DNP, APRN-FNP, CMC, UMC, BC, WCC, CWS, FACCWS Welcome to the first in a series of blogs focusing on acute surgical wound management. Future segments will discuss steps toward de...

By the WoundSource Editors The number of surgical procedures performed in the United States has been increasing annually by as much as 300% over a 10-year period. Although technological advances in...