3M Skin & Wound Care has relaunched its Cavilon Professional Skin Care line. Cavilon offers a wide range of products that help prevent skin damage from moisture, friction and adhesive trauma. Innovative...
Let there be light: New therapy could fix damaged, aging skin
Oct 22, 2008
A new type of light therapy could repair old, sun-damaged skin on the molecular level, according to a recent study.
Non-white residents face skin issues too
By
John O'Connor
Mar 01, 2014
While people of color appear less likely to develop skin conditions such as foot ulcers and cancers, they are far from immune, experts insist. A new study provides recommendations for the prevention and...
Understanding QAPI and incontinence
Jun 02, 2017
This CE-accredited webinar will help providers understanding skin breakdown.
Aging sweat glands delay wound healing
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 06, 2016
Sweat glands play an important roll in how skin heals from injury, but they don’t work as well in seniors, say University of Michigan researchers.
Ask the Treatment Expert about … skin risk assessment
By
Jeri Lundgren
Aug 09, 2018
Is the Braden Scale a comprehensive skin risk assessment?
‘Washing without water’ is more efficient and improves outcomes versus traditional bed bathing,...
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 18, 2014
Nursing homes could save money and improve resident skin care by using disposable wash gloves rather than giving traditional soap-and-water bed baths, according to results from a study in the Netherlands.
Skin cell communication key to wound healing, study says
By
John Hall
Jan 06, 2017
Medical science may be getting closer to developing better treatments that cause damaged skin in the elderly to repair itself more quickly.
Ask the treatment expert … about bariatric residents
By
Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Mar 05, 2015
Bariatric residents require special care related to pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, along with safe practices to prevent injury to both the resident and staff during caregiving activities.
Terminology for skin rashes
By
Donna Sardina
Jan 03, 2011
Donna Sardina, RN, MHA, WCC,President, Wound Care Education Institute