Question 1

what are the 4 steps in wound care?

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Wound care: The question is rather general so let me give you a general response. First, you want to stabilize any infection, second you want to promote wound bed growth from the base of the wound. There are tons of variables to this and if you have a wound that's not healing, you should see a specialist as wounds can turn into a septic situation quickly.

Question 2

do coloplast sheets for wound care really help?

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Wound care: Coloplast sheets can be helpful. Wound care needs a team and frequent visits. As your wound heals, the products used will likely be changed and modified. The costs of these products can be addressed with your doc and insurance coverage. There are less expensive options or alternative options. Good luck.

Question 3

could coloplast sheets for wound care really heal?

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Protective: Primarily used to protect the surrounding tissues have little effect on promoting healing of the primary wound.

Question 4

what is the definition or description of: wound care?

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Monitoring wound: Wound care involves examining/assess the wound: measurements, factors that impact healing, blood supply, infection, pain, location, depth, venous pressure and nutrition. Care of the wound is set up, and frequent monitoring to intervene if healing is slow or delayed.

Question 5

where can i find more information about wound care at home?

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Wound care.: I'm not really sure what you are asking. If you want wound care to be performed at home, you can ask home healthcare nursing agencies. Most home care is provided through such agencies, which train and employ skilled nurses to provide home care.

Question 6

please answer! what would another name for a wound care dr be?

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Many specialties: There are many different types of doctors who deal with wounds including family practice, internal medicine and surgeons.  However, those of us that deal exclusively with all types of wounds (especially those not healing normally) are called wound care specialists, chronic wound care specialists or chronic wound care physicians.A real wound doc should only do wound care at least 40 hours per week.

Question 7

do i have to be a nurse to then become a wound care technician?

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Wound professionals: It is not clear what you mean by a "wound technician".  There are multiple opportunities with  wound care under many different  professions.

Question 8

what are the primary dressings and secondary dressings in wound care?

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Dressings: Primary is what is on the wound directly; secondary is what is on top of the primary dressing.

Question 9

when a nurse assesses a wound, what's the plan concerning wound care?

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Job description: While nurse are extraordinarily skilled and integral to wound healing, they are not trained to establish a diagnosis.They assess the wound by evaluating it and then reporting their findings to a physician.  Physicians are trained to identify the cause of the wound, look at the many related factors and then create a plan of treatment.  It is the nurses responsibility to carry out the treatment plan.

Question 10

what are the benefits of hyperbaric wound care?

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Hyperbaric medicine: There are several indications for hyperbaric treatments: some are scuba diving related, some are for rare medical conditions (aspergillosis, for example), and others are found illnesses that we see in a wound center like chronic refractory osteomyelitis, a wagner iii diabetic ulceration, or from specific complications of radiation. In all cases, the high oxygen helps raise the oxygen of the tissue.

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