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Wounds and Skin Conditions Associated with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

By Katherine Piette End-stage renal disease (ESRD) poses significant challenges beyond the well-known burden of dialysis and organ...

Breast Cancer Associated Wound & Skin Issues

Katie Rizzo, BSN, RN, CWOCN; Corstrata Wound Specialist October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Corstrata has the privilege of working...

The Importance of Organized Home Health and Hospice Wound Care

As a former home health and hospice manager responsible for overseeing quality improvement, I witnessed the following scenario playing...

The Key Questions for the AHRQ Systematic Review

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a division of the Health and Human Services Department recently published in the...

Key Takeaways from DFCon 2017 in Houston

WOW! Where do I start?! I had the great fortune to attend the 2017 DFCon (Diabetic Foot Conference) last week in Houston, for the first...

Telehealth: More Than Just Technology

Technology is a tool to enable or facilitate solving a problem or making a process more efficient. In telehealth technology - whether it...

Where to Find Best Practices for Wound Management

First of all, what really is evidence-based practice (EBP), and why is it fundamental to care delivery? According to D.L. Sackett, a...

Key Findings You Should Know About Skin Substitutes

Typically, chronic wounds that don’t respond to initial treatment, despite appropriate care, require advanced wound-healing...

Spotlight: Karen Kennedy-Evans On Discovery of Kennedy Ulcer

Corstrata’s Vice President of Clinical Quality, Jan Cuzzell, MSN, RN, CWS, had the privilege to talk with long-time friend and colleague,...

What's To Come In 2017 For Home Wound Care

As 2016 draws to a close, we look towards the future of home wound care. Just this month, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

How to Know if Your Wound Management is Successful

Post acute providers - hospices, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and long term acute care hospitals are often reticent...

Why Do Ostomy Patients Go Back To The Hospital?

To honor Ostomy Awareness Day on October 1, we're discussing the specific challenges of ostomy care and the various risk factors that can...

How to Manage Risks and Prevent Pressure Ulcers

In 1859, Florence Nightingale wrote, “If he [the patient] has a bedsore, it’s generally not the fault of the disease, but of the...

Wound Management Guidelines For Diabetic Foot Ulcer Prevention And Management

What A Comprehensive Foot Exam Assesses A diabetes foot ulcer prevention and management plan begins with proper wound management...

Wound Care Liability Can Damage Providers - Here’s How To Improve Ostomy Care Nursing

Why Does Minimizing Litigation Liability Matter? Pressure injuries (ulcers) are targeted for litigation more than other wound types...

How Venous Leg Ulcers Develop - And How To Treat Them

As the most common lower extremity wound type (80% of cases), venous leg ulcers (VLU) are skin wounds typically located on the medial...

Navigating Survey & Litigation Challenges in Hospice and Palliative Wound Care

The Critical Role of Wound Care Education in Hospice & Palliative Care

Embracing Virtual Nursing for Wound and Ostomy Care