A pleasure to be supporting wound awareness week. Travels taking me from Tamworth, to Central Coast and Sydney to support those nurses who are keen to enhance their wound care. Great to have industry support along the way. Pictured is Linda Clarkson from Smith&Nephew with
Continue ReadingThere are around 250 million surgical procedures performed worlwide per year. Nearly 1/3 of these take place in the Asia-Pacific region. Data suggests that there is a 4% incidence of surgical site infection. Using Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) is thought to reduce surgical site
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Lindsay Leg Club Foundation forms partnership with the Wound Guy The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation is to form a partnership with The Wound Guy with the ultimate aim of providing a better quality of life for patients with leg ulcers. The Wound Guy is Australian based
Continue ReadingThis is the second composition of WUWHS presentation summaries. 1. Electrical stimulation (ES) devices such as WoundEL and AccelHeal were discussed for hard-to-heal wounds. The next step in development will be to replace the machine-to-patient leads with systems which use wireless microcurrent stimulation. ES benefits have
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The WUWHS 2016 meeting was held at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy (see lead feature photo). There were over 6000 delegates attending from countries all around the world. Amongst them, a strong contingent of Aussies - presenting and attending. The majority of the information
Continue ReadingToday the International Skin Tear Advisory Panel (ISTAP) provided sessional presentations and case studies on skin tear management at the WUWHS 2016 meeting in Florence, Italy. Anecdotally many health care clinicians report seeing many of these kind of wounds. However, the true nature of
Continue ReadingThis week it is my pleasure to present to aged care nurses working in Auckland, New Zealand. Thank you for this opportunity Lyndon Forrest and Michele Pasco - from Bug Control.
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McGuire, Sebag and Skolnik have recently released a paper (published by Wound Source, 2016) called "Using the Entropic Wound Cycle as the basis for making effective treatment choices." Numerous points of interest are raised by the authors but the comment that struck me was
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Thank you to Acelity, ArjoHuntleigh, BBraun and 3M for your significant contribution to today's Empower Nurse Education Leg Ulcer Review Seminar. All seats taken. Excellent delegate and trade interaction. Wonderful evaluations. Congratulations to Michelle Stubbs for convening another very successful event.
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It was my privilege to present on behalf of Smith&Nephew a wound management review for nurses working across all sectors of health care. Topics covered included skin A&P, process of wound repair, wound bed preparation, reasons for chronicity, principles of compression therapy and the concepts behind
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