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The Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) is a non-profit organization that takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the care of wounds. Their official journal is the Ostomy Wound Management. [2] [3]
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Professor Chandan K Sen (2023) Chandan K. Sen is an Indian-American scientist who is known for contributions to the fields of regenerative medicine and wound care.He is currently the Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh. [1]
Wound, ostomy, and continence nursing is a nursing specialty involved with the treatment of patients with acute and chronic wounds, patients with an ostomy (those who have had some kind of bowel or bladder diversion), and patients with incontinence conditions (those with issues of bladder control, bowel control, and associated skin care).
Carilion Clinic is a Roanoke, Virginia-based non-profit integrated health care organization.Carilion owns and operates seven hospitals in the western part of Virginia, a nursing undergraduate program at Radford University Carilion, and a joint-venture medical school and research institute with Virginia Tech known as the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.
Keith Harding is a Past President of the European Tissue Repair Society. He was the first President of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, and first Recorder of the European Wound Management Association. Harding was Chair of the International Working Group on Wound Healing in Diabetic Foot Disease in 2003.
In July 2011, the Gladys Spellman Specialty Care Unit relocated to Laurel Regional Hospital from Cheverly, Maryland, where it had been for 43 years. The fourth-floor unit was named for former politician Gladys Noon Spellman. [12] The hospital is home since 1995 to a specialty outpatient Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine center. [13]
Negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT), also known as a vacuum assisted closure (VAC), is a therapeutic technique using a suction pump, tubing, and a dressing to remove excess wound exudate and to promote healing in acute or chronic wounds and second- and third-degree burns.