Researchers at National Taiwan University have discovered how light, electricity, and tiny forces can work together to help ...

As chronic conditions like diabetes and vascular diseases become more common, the demand for nurses specializing in wound care has increased significantly. Wound care nursing offers a unique blend of ...

The addition of a certified wound and skin care nurse to a multiprofessional prone-positioning team at Penn Medicine Princeton Health significantly reduced the odds of patients with COVID-19 ...

Q: Why is it so important to assess the skin at admission? As a leader, you are in charge of financial stability, quality standards and patient care. After 11 months of hard work, you take vacation ...

Avulsion wounds of the skin are typically a severe type of skin injury. These wounds often require surgery to repair. While the treatment and care of avulsion wounds will depend on how severe the ...

When he was 10 years old, Joseph Connell was burned on 30% of his body. His leg was so severely damaged the wound went down to the bone, and doctors told him he would never walk again. Connell had 360 ...

In spite of concerted efforts to improve wound care, nursing homes continue to be dogged by many peripheral issues, chief among them being pay and workload complaints. “When I started working in ...

Effective wound care requires the maintenance of optimal conditions for skin and tissue regeneration. Hydrogels provide many of these conditions, but not an alkaline environment. Now, in a ...

Effective wound care is critical for patients recovering from surgery or managing chronic or non-healing wounds. Advances in treatment have led to the development of skin substitutes—bioengineered or ...

There’s something fishy about Coloplast’s latest megadeal—literally. The Danish medtech announced (PDF) plans on Friday to acquire Kerecis, which uses fish skin as the basis of its wound care products ...

More than 3,000 years before the first hospital opened its doors, healers in the ancient world were already experimenting ...