Pressure ulcers are graded on a scale from 0 to 4 depending on how deeply the damage extends from the skin down into the underlying tissue. Superficial pressure ulcers in the skin and subcutaneous ...

Objective The Chief Nurse National Health Service Wales initiated a national survey of acute and community hospital patients in Wales to identify the prevalence of pressure ulcers and ...

There are four assessment instruments commonly used to assess the risk for pressure ulcers: the Braden Scale, Gosnell Scale, Norton Scale, and Waterlow Scale. Table 1 describes these four instruments.

Bothwell Wound Healing Center has earned the Center of Distinction award from Healogics®, the nation’s largest provider of ...

Electrospinning provides a simple and convenient method to fabricate nanofibrous meshes. However, the nanofiber productivity is often limited to the laboratory scale, which cannot satisfy the ...