2 June 2020
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Skin care, wounds and lymphorrhea in lymphoedema
Andrea Mangion is the founder of Health Education for Lymphoedema (HELP). In Part One of our interview, Andrea and I discuss
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18 May 2020
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Netflix of Medical Education
Medical and healthcare education is vital for ensuring up-to-date service delivery. Literature, on-site inservices, conferences and webinars are all valuable sources of learning. Getting the time, funding and access to obtain appropriate training is always a challenge. This is where on-line learning can provide health professionals with what
1 March 2020
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Wound hygiene – aggressive cleansing
Christine Murphy and her colleagues have recently published a new international consensus document which addresses the concept of wound hygiene for hard-to-heal wounds. The presumption is that the majority of stalled wounds will contain biofilm. It is suggested that disrupting biofilms via aggressive wound cleansing
4 November 2019
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Malnutrition in the community
An estimated 93% of all those who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in the UK are living in the community. Most of the at risk population are older people, people on low incomes, those who are socially isolated, individuals with chronic disorders and persons
6 September 2019
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Bringing non-healing wounds into the open
Most clinicians and patients expect their cutaneous wounds to heal - which is fine, until they don’t. Spruijt et al recently reported on complex wounds which were receiving expert care by specialist wound practitioners in Europe. The wound aetiologies treated included diabetic ulcers, osteomyelitis, wounds
9 July 2019
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All oedema is lymphoedema
Robyn Bjork and Suzie Ehmann recently wrote a clinical guidance document on compression and the lower limb. Their document has many points of interest about oedema aetiology and the determination of appropriate therapy. Just a few highlights are : 1. “All oedema is technically lymphoedema,
3 July 2019
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Undisturbed wound healing
Brindle & Farmer recently discussed the concept of combining wound bed preparation with “undisturbed wound healing”. The notion being that impediments to wound repair such as devitalised tissue, infection, unresolved inflammation and inappropriate exudate, are treated and then as the wound enters a proliferative or
18 May 2019
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The problem of VLU recurrence
Individuals who achieve closure of a venous leg ulcer but who then receive no ongoing therapy afterwards are subject to recurrence rates as high as 76% within the first year post treatment. Interventions available to reduce these recurrence rates include endovenous sclerotherapy, endovenous ablation, venous
7 May 2019
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Innovations in wound care which center on patient priorities ….
We were recently given pause for thought when asked to consider what dressing materials are available to match darker skin tones. I noted that there doesn’t seem to be any such products in my domain of clinical practice. This gap in the wound care marketplace
1 May 2019
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Why chronic wounds develop
Most hard to heal wounds owe their origins to either repeated tissue injury, ischaemia or bioburden (or a combination of all three). Prof G Schultz 2018 at the 4th International Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention conference, Las Vegas USA.