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Best in Class: Scottsdale Wound Management Guide
Comprehensive pocket handbook offers differential diagnosis and treatment options at your fingertips
Malvern, PA (June 8, 2009) – Proper wound care management has become one of the top concerns for many clinicians across various medical specialties. Treatment is specific to the wound type, the patient and the long-term care plan and requires ongoing assessment. Read More
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Education
ON-DEMAND WEBCAST - How Advanced Wound Dressing Technology Helps Progress Chronic Wound Healing
Non-Accredited
Taking the Complexity Out of Diabetic Foot Management - Complimentary On-Demand Webcast
Non-Accredited
Simple Steps in Wound Healing to Achieve Success for Your Patients and Practice - Complimentary On-Demand Webcast
Non-Accredited
CLINICAL EVENTS CALENDAR
- Wound Clinic Business MeetingStart Date:June 18, 2010End Date:June 18, 2010
Crowne Plaza, Chicago O'Hare
- SAWC FallStart Date:September 23, 2010End Date:September 25, 2010
Anaheim Convention Center
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Healing the foot or leg ulcer (DU) of a patient with diabetes lowers his or her risk of lower-extremity amputation, a frequent precursor of morbidity and mortality.1 Evidence-based management requires
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Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles (soft cover) promises to provide evidence-based guidance on wound management and practical advice for all clinicians. For a book of this size and scope, the findings and material are rather impressive. The book is divided into 2 sections—Wound Care Concepts and Wound Classifications and Management Strategies. The information presented is up to date, representing the state of the art of wound care at the time of publication.
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Platelets contain many growth factors that have been postulated to play an important role in the wound healing process and re-epithelization. Autologous platelet-rich plasma gel (APG) was developed in the early 1970s as a by-product of multicomponent pheresis. Techniques and equipment have dramatically improved in the last decade. APG contains supraphysiologic amounts of various platelet growth factors. It is produced from platelet concentrate plus thrombin/calcium mixture.
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Disclosure: Dr. Parenteau and Dr. Young are principals of Parenteau BioConsultants, Inc. This article represents a synopsis of some findings from a report series published and sold by the firm.
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Disclosure: Financial support for this study was provided by KCI.
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Hernia surgery is one of the most commonly performed operations in surgical practice. Groin hernia surgery is associated with a number of complications including visceral injury, neuro-vascular injury, seroma formation, anesthetic complications, infection, and those related to prosthesis. With the increasing utilization of prosthesis in hernia surgery a number of complications became evident, and several dismal outcomes occurred as a result of prosthesis misuse.
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