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Mark Collier

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PubMed2002

Wound-bed management: key principles for practice.

Most chronic wounds have become stuck in the late inflammatory phase of wound healing. This can be distressing and frustrating for patients who may have lived with such a wound for many months. The key to the concept of wound-bed management is to prepare the wound so that modern methods of promoting healing can then be applied.

Bacterial Infections↗
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Wound bed preparation: theory to practice.

This article provides an overview of and rationale for wound bed preparation. It seeks to increase nurses' knowledge and understanding of the roles of the main cells and growth factors, involved in the wound healing process, and also to highlight how theory relates to practice.

Bandages↗
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The development of a nurse-led complex wound clinic.

This article describes the development of a nurse-led complex wound clinic in Lincolnshire in April 2003, and describes one patient's experience of the service. It also explores the benefits of collaborative initiatives that have the potential to improve patient outcomes.

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The use of advanced biological and tissue-engineered wound products.

This article aims to reintroduce readers to biologically based and tissue-engineered wound management products. Indications for their use in clinical practice are suggested. It also examines two well-established wound management interventions, topical negative pressure therapy and larval therapy, which could have a positive effect on the outcome of biologically based and tissue-engineered wound management products.

Adjuvants, Immunologic↗
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The challenge of wound exudate.

The past two decades have seen many advances in tissue viability. Our knowledge of the processes involved in wound healing has increased vastly, and as a result many products and techniques have been developed to speed it up. However, patients with wounds, and the professionals who care for them, still experience a number of challenges.

Bandages↗
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Topical negative pressure therapy.

Topical negative pressure therapy (TNP) has been available for clinical use in wound management since the late 1990s. It has been shown to be of particular benefit for the treatment of chronic nonhealing wounds and has also recently been positively linked to wound bed preparation.

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The elements of wound assessment.

Accurate wound assessment is essential to the appropriate and realistic planning of goals and interventions for patients with wounds. However, the assessment process has a number of components that must be systematically considered.

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Understanding wound inflammation.

Inflammation is the first stage in the wound-healing process. It is normally followed by two further phases: regeneration (sometimes also referred to as proliferation) and maturation. Inflammation is characterised by the classic signs of heat and redness, pain and swelling, raised temperature and fever. The overall function of inflammation is to neutralise and destroy any toxic agents at the site of an injury and to restore tissue homeostasis.

Blood Platelets↗