Chronic Venous Insufficiency - National Healing

Wound Healing Perspectives is how we tell the healthcare professionals near our centers about the latest techniques and solutions used to heal their patients. Our goal is to get involved early in the treatment process to speed each patient's healing.

Wound Healing Perspectives is published quarterly and each issue focuses on a specific type of wound. Past issues have discussed wounds of the lower extremities, venous leg ulcers, and radiation injuries.

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Wound Healing Perspectives Past Issues

Basics of HBO (Volume 5, No. 2, Spring 2008) [PDF Format]
This issue provides an overview on hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) - breathing 100 percent oxygen while enclosed in a chamber pressurized between 1.5 - 3.0 times atmospheric pressure, which has been proven to help wounds, especially infected wounds, heal more quickly. Topics in this issue review HBO - from past to present, advantages of multiplace and monoplace HBO chambers, The UHMS - an overview, HBO's potential anti-cancer effects on breast cancer, approved indications, HBO: a useful adjunct in the treatment of frostbite, HBO therapy for acute traumatic ischemia and crush injury, Pneumothorax - contraindication for HBO, the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen in superficial dermal wounds, Relative risks of HBO, and frequently asked questions about HBO.

Advanced Therapies Part III (Volume 5, No 1 Winter 2008) [PDF Format]
This issue provides an overview on advanced therapies to treat chronic wounds and includes articles on growth factors, what makes a chronic wound, advanced therapy options, matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors, a combination anti-inflammatory matrix, odor side effect, skin substitutes, grafjacket, negative pressure wound therapy, a cost-benefit analysis of Apligraf, and how to work with a wound center.

Wound Healing Basics (Fall 2007) [PDF Format]
This issue provides insight into modern wound dressings. It reviews the history of wound dressings and the various categories of anti-infectives and wound dressings available, along with their properties.

Type II Diabetes and Wound Healing (Spring 2007) [PDF Format]
This issue provides an overview of the factors associated with the development of type 2 diabetes, including nutrition and diet, dietary modifications, the Glycemic Index, fiber and glucose control, and much more.

Malignant Wounds (Winter 2007) [PDF Format]
This issue addresses subjects around the topic of malignancy, including minimizing patient pain, fungating wounds, cutaneous metastic breast cancer, malignant melanoma, squamous cell cancer, Marjolin's Ulcers, and cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma.

Infection and Chronic Wounds (Fall 2006) [PDF Format]
A comprehensive review of infection and chronic wounds, including MRSA infection, cellulitis pseudomonas infections, and antiseptics.

Vasculopathy versus Vasculitis (Summer 2006) [PDF Format]
A review of two disorders often misunderstood and misdiagnoses-vasculopathy and vasculitis-including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment

Critical Limb Ischemia (Spring 2006) [PDF Format]
An overview of critical limb ischemia including treatment options, general patient advice, and new procedures in pain treatment. Diagnosing peripheral arterial disease and amputation prevention strategies are also reviewed.

Atypical Wounds Part II (Winter 2006) [PDF Format]
Part two of a series focusing on atypical wounds. This edition reviews articles ranging from new treatments for epidermoid cancers to brown recluse spider bites.

Advanced Therapies Part II (Fall 2005) [PDF Format]
A review of the latest advances in wound therapies, including tissue engineered products, recombinant growth factors, antimicrobial agents, hyperbaric oxygen, and negative pressure wound therapy.

Atypical wounds (Summer 2005) [PDF Format]
An in-depth look at uncommon but serious wounds, including diagnostic criteria, characteristics, risk factors and guidelines for care and management.

Advanced Wound Therapy (Spring 2005) [PDF Format]
An overview of advanced treatment options including medical maggots, bioengineered tissue, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and negative pressure wound therapy.

Pressure Ulcers (Winter 2005) [PDF Format]
A detailed review of pressure ulcers that covers the causes, risk factors, surface recommendations, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guidelines and more.

Osteoradionecrosis (Winter 2005) [PDF Format]
An exploration of osteoradionecrosis, including risk factors, prevention, causes, incidence and treatments.

Soft Tissue Radiation Injuries (Winter 2005) [PDF Format]
An in-depth look into radiation injuries, including the treatment of radiation cystitis, proctitis and enteritis using HBO therapy.

Arterial Insufficiency (Fall 2004) [PDF Format]
An in-depth look at arterial insufficiency, including prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment. Also features a patient education section.

Wounds to the Lower Extremity (Spring 2003) [PDF Format]
A discussion of CMS' decision to approve hyperbaric oxygen therapy for diabetic foot ulcers and information about how diabetes increases patients' risks of slow-healing wounds.

Venous Ulcers (Summer 2003) [PDF Format]
An overview of venous ulcers including causes, diagnostic tests, and therapies.

Transcutaneous Oxygen (Spring 2004) [PDF Format]
A review of the effectiveness of transcutaneous oxygen monitoring in developing treatment plans for patients with non-healing wounds.