Adam Landsman, DPM, PhD, FACFAS. Chief, Division of Podiatric Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School 1493 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02139. Submitted for publication to the International Wound Journal ABSTRACT This study represents the first observational analysis for the…
Author: Chausha Weitman Cernica, MA, R.N, Wound-care coordinator. Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel BACKGROUND Erysipelas is a bacterial skin infection involving the upper dermis that characteristically extends into the superficial cutaneous lymphatics. It is a tender, intensely erythematous, indurated plaque with a…
Nearly 500 people were injured in a severe explosion at Taiwan water park. The main suggestion was that a colored powder that event organizers were blasting onto the crowd may have triggered the explosion. The accident occurred amid the party. The majority of injured…
Case Series Study: Department of Emergency Medicine and Traumatology Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center Hartford Hospital; Hartford, CT Study Summary: SilverStream as an Effective Alternative to Surgical Debridement in Chronic Wounds Background Surgical debridement is often required for chronic wounds with stubborn slough…
Authors: Jennifer Gloeckner Powers, MD, Laurel M. Morton, MD, Tania J. Phillips, MD. Department of Dermatology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts BACKGROUND Since chronic wounds are prone to bacterial infections, the clinician looks for more sustainable approaches to reducing bacterial growth than multiple courses of…
Authors: Darlene Saucier APRN, MSN, BC-FNP, CWCN; Catherine T. Milne APRN, MSN, BC-ANP/CNS, CWOCN, Connecticut Clinical Nursing Associates, LLC Bristol, Connecticut CLINICAL PROBLEM Topical antimicrobial therapy has been shown to be an effective method to address critical colonization. Silver, in ionic or nanocrystalline forms,…
Authors: Thomas E. Serena MD FACS FACHM MAPWCA, St. Vincent Hospital, Erie, PA. USA Use of an Ionic Silver Solution for Wound Cleansing and Reduction in Biomaterial BACKGROUND Antisepsis in wound care consists primarily in the use of topical antimicrobials to reduce both platonic…
Authors: Joachim Dissemond, Johannes Georg Böttrich, Horst Braunwarth, Jörg Hilt, Patricia Wilken, Karl-Christian, Münter 6. 2017 Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft (DDG). Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | JDDG | 1610-0379/2017/1505 Background Given that the scientific evidence for silver in wound care is generally…
Introduction to Case Study This case study involves a 46-year-old female patient with an 8-month-old non-healing venous ulcer on the lower right leg. The patient, who was overweight, suffered from a stubborn biofilm and an infection-resistant wound that did not respond to multiple prior…
EnzySurge (now SilverStream Medical) develops innovative aqueous solutions to remove debris and foreign material from chronic or acute wounds. Its first product, SilverStream, has been on the market in the US, Israel and India since the beginning of 2013 for cleaning chronic wounds and burns….
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