Editorials And Reports
Meeting report on advanced wound care masterclass: Diagnostics - current and future perspectivesOn 30 June 2010, Wounds International held an international masterclass on wound diagnostics in Manchester, UK. The masterclass focused on current and future perspectives of wound diagnostics and was chaired by Professor Keith Harding (Cardiff University,...
Things never stand still
Wounds International, Vol 1; Issue 3Suzie Calne reports on a number of new launches for Wounds International.
Wound care education in Romania
Wounds International, Vol 1; Issue 3In this guest editorial, Irene Anderson describes her experiences of running a wound care course for nurses and doctors in Romania.
Meeting the need for global wound care education
Wounds International, Vol 1; Issue 2I am delighted to report that the launch of Wounds International has been very well received by clinicians and industry, confirming that there is indeed a genuine need for a ‘journal‘ providing short, interesting, reliable and relevant content that is...
A new online journal for clinicians around the world
Wounds International, Vol 1; Issue 1Wounds International is a new online wound management journal that provides clinicians with reliable and useful material that will give an instant update of all the most important current developments in wound care. Being an online journal, Wounds International...
The diabetic foot in Russia: Has the Eastern bloc gotten the message?In our guest editorial, Professor Irina Gurieva reviews the advances in diabetic foot care in Russia since 1985.
Making a difference for patients and carers
Wounds International, Vol 1; Issue 1In this guest editorial, Janine Michaelides discusses her motivation for improving the care of patients by raising the profile of tissue viability in Cyprus.
- Biofilms: hard to detect, easy to underestimate, but most definitely here to stay VIEW PDF
Biofilms are found in most natural environments and are probably the most common form of microbial existence. They are relatively stable, three-dimensional communities of microbial cells encased in a complex mixture of extracellular polymers. Biofilms normally...
- Should expert opinion or research findings guide PU grading changes VIEW PDF
The pressure ulcer community often agrees that relatively little is known about the fine detail of our field, for example, we do not have much information about the effectiveness of our inter ventions, and the true risk factors for pressure ulcer development...
- The RCT gold standard may be blinding us to the value of other research methods VIEW PDF
Pressure ulcers have been a fascinating area of study for a number of years and they are still not fully understood. The field of pressure ulcer care in some ways is a microcosm of healthcare as a whole as it brings together nurses, doctors, dieticians, podiatrists,...
