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This Is Wound Care, the Coolest Specialty in Health Care

There are three little words in health care that without proper treatment can destroy your family’s finances and health. Despite this, the amount of people that have ever heard of the words — non-healing wounds — remains astonishingly low.

We are not talking about simple cuts, scrapes, or boo boos. Wound Care is a raw, gritty, extremely visual, and sometimes nauseating field of health care. It is certainly not for the squeamish. At the same time it is the coolest, most visual, and passion filled specialty of healthcare in which to be employed.

The wound care community is a segment of health care specialists that have dedicated their lives to the healing and treatment of…

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A polyurethane dressing can trap the moisture more effectively than a standard adhesive bandage. (In fact, even ordinary kitchen-grade plastic wrap may be a better choice.) If you choose an adhesive bandage, it’s best to apply a coating of ointment to the wound first, which will provide a much better moisture barrier than the bandage alone. Another good option is a cyanoacrylate, which works like a glue to make a water-tight barrier around the wound.

Does Removing Scabs From a Wound Speed Up Healing?

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The maggots only eat "devitalized" tissue, and ignore the living tissue, said Eron. This means they are great for cleaning up diabetic lesions that don't respond to standard treatment. For the study, he and his team put 50 to 100 larvae on each wound and left them there for two days, then took them away and replaced them with new ones. They did this about five times per wound.

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This Is Wound Care, the Coolest Specialty in Health Care

We are not talking about simple cuts, scrapes, or boo boos. Wound Care is a raw, gritty, extremely visual, and sometimes nauseating field of health care. It is certainly not for the squeamish. At the same time it is the coolest, most visual, and passion filled specialty of healthcare in which to be employed.

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Resources

Wounds

WOUNDS is the most widely read, peer-reviewed journal focusing on wound care and wound research. The information disseminated to our readers includes valuable research and commentaries on tissue repair and regeneration, biology and biochemistry of wound healing, and clinical management of various wound etiologies.

Wounds UK

Adding value, enhancing understanding, changing practice Wounds Group is a major international healthcare communications business with a global reach in wound management. Our mission is to deliver innovative educational materials, online, in print and in person that successfully meet the needs of those practising wound healing across different geographies.

Healogics

Healogics, Inc. is the leader in outpatient wound care management services and is the partner of choice for more than 500 hospitals nationwide. Healogics delivers evidence-based clinical medicine and is focused on providing exceptional outpatient wound care.

Wound Care Advantage

We work to be the best wound care company. Not the biggest.

Wound Care Institute

WCI is a tax exempt, non-profit organization involved in the advancement of wound healing and diabetic foot care. Educational seminars, research studies, educational grants, a speaker's bureau, preceptorship programs and patient literature are some of the WCI's goals.