Nursing home (NH) residents are often advanced in age, cognitively challenged, and overweight or obese, making limitations in residents’ mobility/movements a common and increasing concern. Lack of movement for prolonged periods without relieving pressure on
2024-05-16
Skin failure is increasingly recognized as a clinical syndrome. Like all other organs, skin can fail; however, experts continue to grapple with definitions, causative factors, and identifying manifestations. There are currently a number of overlapping
2024-05-03
April is Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month. A time when we pause to remember and honor the millions living with limb loss after an amputation. When advanced wound care strategies are not applied and a wound becomes unmanageable, physicians are
2024-04-23
Among many vital functions, the skin functions as a barrier to protect the body against mechanical trauma, noxious irritants, infectious pathogens, and excessive fluids. Overexposure of the skin to moisture can compromise the integrity of the barrier,
2024-04-20
Student, Faculty of Nursing, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia All authors, faculty, staff, and planners have no relevant financial
2024-04-18
Author Information Qinxin Liu, MD, is Research Fellow, Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing Laboratory, Division of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Trauma Surgeon, Department of Traumatic Surgery, Tongji Hospital,
2024-04-11
On March 26, 2021, Vaughn Schnakenberg made a few final adjustments on the ‘76 Corvette he’d lovingly restored for his wife and took it out for a test drive. Minutes later, a drunk driver traveling at a high rate of speed broadsided him, smashing the
2024-04-10
A pressure injury (PI), formerly known as a pressure ulcer, is “localized damage to the skin and underlying soft tissue usually over a bony prominence or related to medical or other devices.” Pressure injuries are traditionally staged, and the stages are
2024-04-10
Dennis Herbert, 72, a three-time cancer survivor and lead guitarist in a classic rock band, is no stranger to challenges. But he was worried that radiation damage to his tissue from his cancer treatment would get the best of him. Defeating prostate cancer
2024-04-05
