SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) announced today the publication of the first International Consensus Guidelines for its Negative Pressure Wound Therapy with Instillation ...

Chapters include best practice recommendations for skin, prevention and management with an emphasis on nutrition and wound healing, moisture-associated skin damage, skin tears, pressure injuries, ...

Authors review the indications and contraindications, as well as the risks and benefits, of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in chronic wound management. Wounds that fail to proceed through the normal phases ...

A new initiative has been launched to improve outcomes for patients requiring complex wound management. Experts note that the health care system has focused significant resources on reducing surgical ...

Despite 76% of patients referred for home health care being denied in 2022 (a 22% increase from 2019), we know health care is moving home with an increase in HHA referral volumes by 11% since 2020.

The World Health Organization issued new global guidelines for decreasing surgical site infections. 1. The guidelines touch on 27 different topics related to reducing SSIs. 2. One guideline recommends ...

Peter L. Salgo, MD: More advanced wounds; I want to talk about how to treat them, and are there differences in procedures from center to center, practitioner to practitioner, and wound to wound? How ...

Authors of International Consensus Suggest that Fluorescence Imaging of Bacterial Burden is Positioned to Change Contemporary Paradigms of Post-Surgical Wound Management In the consensus guidelines, ...

Despite the huge burden that wound care places on the health service, in terms of both cost and resources, it gets very little mainstream media attention. Medical technology company Smith + Nephew’s ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) This free, digital book, Best Practice Recommendations for Skin Health and Wound Management 2025, is the wound care resource you need. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, February 24, ...

Many other factors can impede the ability of wounds to heal. In 2002, a wound consensus group developed the TIME guidelines for the treatment of chronic wounds. The components of this mnemonic are ...