How to tell if a wound is infected comes down to a question no single glance can answer: which way…
An unstageable pressure ulcer is a wound whose base is buried under dead tissue, so nobody can see how far…
Pressure ulcer stages describe one thing: how far down the damage goes. Stage 1 is skin that is still intact.…
Charcot foot is a complication of diabetic nerve damage in which the bones and joints of the foot weaken, break…
A venous leg ulcer is an open sore on the lower leg caused by pressure building up inside the leg’s…
A normal ankle-brachial index runs from 1.00 to 1.40. At 0.90 or below, the arteries feeding that leg have narrowed…
An arterial ulcer is a wound that stays open because too little blood is reaching it. The skin has not…
Leg ulcer types come down to three common causes: veins that no longer move blood out of the leg, arteries…
Diabetic foot ulcer stages are almost always the Wagner grades, a scale running from 0 to 5 that describes how…