Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) is a multidrug-resistant Gramnegative bacterium commonly found in health care settings. Pa infections frequently result in considerable morbidity and mortality. Sweere et al. found that a type of temperate filamentous bacteriophage that infects and integrates into Pa is associated with chronic human wound infections.
Read MoreHSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital recently name Toni McCutcheon as program director of the hospital’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine. She began her new role March 4.
Read MoreClaxton-Hepburn Medical Center’s Rev. Thomas T. Patterson Wound Healing Center has been given the Center of Distinction Award by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services.
Read MoreThe Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center at Portneuf Medical Center has been awarded the President’s Circle Center of Excellence award for the eighth consecutive year.
Read MoreSoutheastern Health’s Southeastern Wound Healing Center continues its record of excellence. The center has once again been recognized as a Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Center of Excellence for achieving patient satisfaction rates higher than 92 percent and a healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 30 median days to heal, for a minimum of two consecutive years.
Read MoreNow residing in Clinton, Evans has been spending the last year camping at Boiling Springs during week days so he can spend three days a week in the hyperbaric chamber of AllianceHealth Woodward Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center hoping to save his leg.
Read MoreThe American Cancer Society estimates there are over 15.5 million cancer survivors in the United States. Approximately 50% have received radiation therapy to beat cancer. Brian Delano, Director of the TMC Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine joins us to talk about the Late Effects of Radiation.
Read MoreWhanger had a history of ankle problems due to complications with diabetes and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (M.R.S.A.). He is the type of person who cannot be cooped up for too long, always wanting to get up and go. He believed that as long as he kept going through the pain, it would eventually heal itself. This time, that was not the case.
Read MoreUse of ultra-portable, mechanically powered disposable negative pressure wound therapy (dNPWT) has grown as an adjunctive modality to manage wounds in outpatient care and to expedite transition of inpatients to an outpatient setting.
Read MoreMTF Biologics® announced today that its AmnioBand® Membrane line of aseptically processed human placental membrane allografts for use as acute or chronic wound coverings have received coverage from Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc.
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