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Wound Care and the Community Nurse

Dr Rachel Webb reports in the latest Journal of Wound Care on a meeting conducted in the House of Lords which was convened to discuss a National Wound Care Strategy. During the meeting it was stated that community nurses perform 74% of all wound care.

Beware the hot water bottle …

Every winter I see patients who experience deep burns from their hot water bottles. The devices are wrapped but often placed directly over areas of skin. The dissipation of heat into tissue is slow and insidious. The contact time is many minutes or even hours.

Wounds and Tetanus

In her recent Wound Source blog post, Dr Aletha Tippett reminds us that Clostridium tetani remains an ever present bacterium - primarily found in soil and faeces. Whilst most Westernised countries have eliminated this infection through immunization, increased international transit from regions with poor rates of

An alternative topical option to antimicrobials

Microbial resistance is an issue of concern for those of us who care for individuals who experience hard-to-heal wounds. The principles of wound bed preparation and biofilm based wound intervention direct us towards adequate tissue debridement and targeted use of antimicrobials. Rippon et al have

New research on skin tears and malnutrition

As our population is ageing, clinicians in every care setting are increasingly being called upon to treat skin tear wounds. These wounds are traumatic in their origin and can be associated with physiological as well as emotional harm. Predisposition to these injuries are enhanced by

Revisiting silver dressings

English Microbiologists Leahy-Gilmartin and Edwards-Jones recently wrote a paper which compared laboratory testing methods on silver dressings. My summary of their findings are : Silver dressings (generically) have a greater antimicrobial effect against Gram negative bacteria than against Gram positive bacteria - including MRSA. Nanocrystalline silver is bacteriocidal

Understanding the ageing process

Dr Robin Berzin, CEO of Parsley Health and a Well+Good Council member, recently wrote a thought provoking and informative blog entitled "5 ways you can actually slow the aging process." She stresses that there is no magic therapy to reverse ageing and that this systemic (unavoidable)

The EVRA trial outcome

The New England Journal of Medicine has just published the outcomes of the EVRA (Early Venous Reflux Ablation) trial. The findings are that endovenous ablation of superficial venous reflux concurrent with compression when compared to compression therapy alone resulted in shorter venous ulcer healing times

Preventing hospital acquired foot pressure injury

Western Australian podiatrist, Jo Scheepers, recently wrote a fascinating article in Wounds International 2018 - entitled "Assessment and consideration of foot risk factors is essential for proactive prevention of hospital-acquired foot pressure injuries." In essence she compared the ability of both the Braden Scale and