ALLMedicine™ Wound Care Center

Dec 1st, 2021 - Wound healing is a complex and energy-demanding process. The relationship between nutrition and wound healing has been recognized for many centuries. Several studies have indicated that nutritional deficiencies are more prevalent among patients wi...

Nov 30th, 2021 - This study aimed to review the reasons why postpartum women present to the emergency department (ED) over a short term (≤10 days post-delivery) and to identify the risk factors associated with early visits to the ED. This retrospective chart revie...

Nov 27th, 2021 - To assess the relative contribution of intravenous antibiotic prophylaxis, mechanical bowel preparation, oral antibiotic prophylaxis, and combinations thereof towards the reduction of surgical site infection (SSI) incidence in elective colorectal ...

Nov 27th, 2021 - Chronic wounds occur as a result of a disordered healing process. They can be associated with complications such as chronic pain and infection, but also rarely lead to malignant transformation. There have been few cases of squamous cell carcinomas...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - This study aimed to analyze upper-extremity combat-related injuries (CRIs) and non-combat-related injuries (NCRIs) treated in the French Forward Surgical Team currently deployed in Gao, Mali. A retrospective study was conducted using the French Mi...

Mar 11th, 2020 - Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are life-threatening conditions with high morbidity and mortality. Supportive care management of SJS/TEN is highly variable. A systematic review of the literature was performed by...

Dec 12th, 2019 - Biofilm has been implicated as a barrier to wound healing and it is widely accepted that the majority of wounds not following a normal healing trajectory contain biofilm. Therefore, strategies that inform and engage clinicians to reduce biofilm an...

Sep 4th, 2015 - In this 'Summary Guidance for Daily Practice', we describe the basic principles of prevention and management of foot problems in persons with diabetes. This summary is based on the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) Guidance ...

Sep 6th, 2013 - To provide specific recommendations to product developers and clinical researchers on the design of comparative effectiveness studies for the treatment of chronic wounds, specifically those pertaining to arterial and venous-disease related ulcers,...

Nov 10th, 2012 - This article provides an executive summary of the lower extremity venous disease (LEVD) evidence-based guideline produced by the WOCN Wound Guidelines Task Force. The target audience for this guideline is health care professionals who specialize i...

Nov 12th, 2021 - Biomedical interventions that have direct applicability to people who inject drugs (PWID) have flourished over the past 15 years (HIV treatment as prevention, pre-exposure prophylaxis, office-based medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenor...

Nov 5th, 2021 - The cicat-occitanie network offers expertise for health professionals concerning wound care, in particular through teleconsultations. This study aimed to understand the obstacles reported by healthcare professionals in Lozere's EHPAD related to th...

Oct 22nd, 2021 - This is a Bayesian adaptive, randomized, controlled, parallel, two-armed Bayesian adaptive trial. Patients diagnosed with varicose ulcers through Doppler ultrasonography will be recruited at the Pro Circulation Clinic of Angiology and Vascular Sur...

Oct 21st, 2021 - The study will be a randomized double blind study whereby patients with refractory diabetic wound healing over 3-6 months will be randomized to ascertain the effect of donepezil (administration of 5 mg to 10 mg of donepezil daily, orally, over 6 w...

Oct 18th, 2021 - Foot ulcers among diabetics are common. In 2015, around 20,000 patients in the Netherlands had a diabetic foot ulcer.1 A study using data from Dutch general practices found a prevalence rate of 0.50% and a 4-year prevalence rate of 2.85%.2 For Eur...

Nov 11th, 2021 - Additional history from the family revealed that they were cleaning the wound with copious amounts of hydrogen peroxide twice a week—a practice that impedes wound healing and was ultimately the cause of this patient’s wound closure delay. A nonhea.

Oct 25th, 2021 - This case illustrates the legal dangers that can arise after an adverse surgical outcome. A 25-year-old woman consulted a plastic surgeon about a breast lift. She weighed 157 pounds and her breasts were size 37D. The surgeon recommended breast lif...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center’s Department of Urology is among the first in the nation to embrace bioregenerative medicine as a new way to promote nerve regeneration and a faster return to normal erectile and urinary fun...

Sep 3rd, 2021 - A topical cream that helps regulate macrophage activity was effective in treating diabetic foot ulcers, a clinical trial reported. In 236 patients with foot ulcers treated for 16 weeks, the proportion who had complete healing of the ulcer was sign...

Jul 12th, 2021 - Women make up an estimated 10% of the veteran population. 1 The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) projected that there would be an increase of 18,000 female veterans per year for 10 years based on 2015 data.