Currently, around 6.7 million Americans are living with a chronic foot or leg wound, and more than two million of them are suffering from a diabetic foot ulcer. Chronic foot and leg wounds are often caused by underlying conditions, such as diabetes and vascular disease. Some of the primary risk factors for wounds of the feet include neuropathy, deformity of the foot, a history of foot ulceration, absent or diminished pulses or of prior lower extremity amputation.
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Advanced technology to treat chronic, non-healing wounds has come to the Fisher-Titus Medical Center. In the spring, the wound center will offer hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy, a painless treatment employed to heal problem wounds.
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How do you define and identify an infected wound? How can wound care providers address the most common obstacles in managing wound infection?
The management and prevention of wound infections are universal challenges for clinicians across all care settings and can be major factors in wound chronicity.
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Iredell Health System recently announced that the Iredell Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center has been named a recipient of the Center of Distinction Award and the Robert A. Warriner III, MD, Center of Excellence Award by Healogics, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services.
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Lourdes Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Medicine has been named a 2017 Center of Distinction by Healogics, Inc. the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services.
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The Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Services at Atrium Medical Center has been named Healogics Inc.’s nation-best Center of the Year for 2017. Earning the award puts the center ahead of the more than 700 wound centers operated nationwide by Florida-based Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced chronic wound care service.
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To help Registered Dietitians (RD) and Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDN) prepare for board certification in wound care, Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI) has launched a tailored Skin and Wound Management course suited for the RD and RDN.
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Holzer Health System physicians, leaders, and clinicians are proud to celebrate the Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Center of Excellence award presented to Holzer Wound Care Center. This Center has achieved 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.
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Up until now, local inflammation and scar tissue from the so-called “foreign body response” has prevented the development of in-body sensors capable of continuous, long-term monitoring of body chemistry. But today scientists are presenting results showing tiny biosensors that become one with the body have overcome this barrier, and stream data to a mobile phone and to the cloud for personal and medical use.
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Biomedical engineers have demonstrated a new approach to making self-assembled biomaterials that relies on protein modifications and temperature. The hybrid approach allows researchers to control self-assembly more precisely, which may prove useful for a variety of biomedical applications, from drug delivery to wound-healing.
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