Expert Wound Care Articles, Guides & Resources
These guides cover what to expect while a wound is healing, how to look after one at home, and when a change is worth reporting to a clinician. If you are looking for treatment rather than reading, our care is organized into five areas: chronic wound treatment for ulcers and injuries that have stopped healing, advanced wound care for wounds that have not responded to standard treatment, surgical wound care for incisions after an operation, mobile and home health wound care for visits wherever you are living, and wound care education for patients and caregivers managing a wound day to day.
Knowing when to stop covering an open wound comes down to one question: has new skin closed the…
A Braden Scale score is a number between 6 and 23 that estimates how likely a person is…
Enzymatic debridement is the clearing of dead tissue from a wound with a prescription ointment, spread on the…
Should a wound be covered or left open to air? Covered, in almost every case. The idea that…
A deep tissue pressure injury is pressure damage that begins at the bone and works outward, which is…
A pressure relief mattress is chosen by how much risk the person is under and how little they…
Autolytic debridement is the body clearing dead tissue out of a wound on its own, using enzymes and…
How to prevent bedsores comes down to a single idea applied relentlessly: no patch of skin should carry…
Moisture associated skin damage is skin worn down by staying wet, and it is the thing most often…
How to tell if a wound is infected comes down to a question no single glance can answer:…
An unstageable pressure ulcer is a wound whose base is buried under dead tissue, so nobody can see…
Pressure ulcer stages describe one thing: how far down the damage goes. Stage 1 is skin that is…
Charcot foot is a complication of diabetic nerve damage in which the bones and joints of the foot…
A venous leg ulcer is an open sore on the lower leg caused by pressure building up inside…
A normal ankle-brachial index runs from 1.00 to 1.40. At 0.90 or below, the arteries feeding that leg…
An arterial ulcer is a wound that stays open because too little blood is reaching it. The skin…
Leg ulcer types come down to three common causes: veins that no longer move blood out of the…
Diabetic foot ulcer stages are almost always the Wagner grades, a scale running from 0 to 5 that…
An osteomyelitis foot ulcer is a foot wound where infection has traveled out of the soft tissue and…
A plantar diabetic foot ulcer is a pressure injury that happens to be open. Here is what offloading…
Diabetic foot ulcer treatment in Fayetteville GA means five jobs running at once: taking weight off the wound,…
Medicare Part B wound care Georgia patients qualify for pays for the same services here as it does…
Mobile wound care Fayetteville GA patients arrange sounds like a convenience, and it is one. No drive, no…
Wound care covered by Medicare Part B reaches further than most people expect. Office visits, wound assessment, debridement,…
Are mobile wound care services safe for melanin-rich skin? Learn how specialized in-home wound care providers address unique…