Wound healing happens in four stages: homeostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. In the inflammation stage, ...

Wound healing happens in several stages. Your wound may look red, swollen, and watery at the beginning, and once it closes, it may have a raised red or pink scar. The scar will eventually become ...

Pressure ulcers progress through several stages. In the early stages, they may barely break the skin. In later stages, they can involve deep wounds and carry a higher risk of complications, like ...

I am a new charge nurse in a skilled nursing facility and was surprised when one of our doctors ordered a tetanus vaccination for a resident with a sacral stage 4 ulcer. Should I have been? No, you ...

The 84-year-old decedent was admitted to the defendant facility from the hospital with one stage 1 pressure injury to her sacrum, incontinence and a Braden score of 13. She was totally dependent on ...

Wound healing is the process that the skin goes through as it repairs damage from wounds. There are three main types of wound healing, known as primary, secondary, and tertiary wound healing. Every ...

Report of an unusual case, where a Marjolin's ulcer that developed 2.5 years after surgical excision and successful closure. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Burn Unit and the ...

A systematic literature review, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, found no evidence supporting a benefit to antibacterial therapy for osteomyelitis in patients with stage IV sacral pressure ...

Reviewing cases where infectious disease specialists are not treating obvious symptoms of soft tissue infections from hospital or nursing home acquired bedsores We are seeing infectious disease ...