Aletha W. Tippett MD
Dr. Aletha Tippett is an award winning health care professional, board certified in family medicine, palliative care, and wound care. Her 20 year career provided the opportunity to treat more than 15,000 wounds and introduced her to a uniquely effective bioengineering approach. Now a published author and international speaker, she seeks to bring these insights to caregivers in nursing homes, hospitals and outpatient offices around the nation, lending a voice to patients who have suffered in silence.
What you can learn about wound care?
From 2011 – 2018 Dr. Tippett contributed monthly articles to WoundSource.com’s online publication. These articles serve as a valuable resource for wound care professionals to this day.
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Dr. Aletha Tippett earned a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri and a medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. She served as founder and president for the Hope of Healing Foundation® for 7 years and has been honored with numerous awards in the health-care community.
Preventing Pressure Ulcers
How do you prevent pressure ulcers? This is an interesting question and one that eludes many. Currently, I am involved in reviewing research proposals to prevent pressure ulcers (injuries). The funny thing is that there is nothing new.
The Use of Lidocaine in Managing Wounds
Lidocaine has been my go-to product for wound care for over 20 years. I always use viscous lidocaine applied to any dressing. A patient might need systemic pain relief also, but the application of topical lidocaine is very effective to help alleviate local pain of wounds.
Expanding Your Knowledge of Palliative Wound Care
Palliative wound care is a field of care that focuses on wound treatment for patients at the end of life, or patients with terminal disease or an inability to tolerate standard care.
Hear Our Cry
BY Aletha W. Tippett MD
CHAPTER ONE – Called by God
Ah, the exhilaration of starting a new fi eld, a new arena that is yet unknown. I was a newly minted doctor even though I was an older woman with a previous career in chemical engineering. The way I got into medicine is different than how most get there…
Hear Our Cry recalls Dr. Aletha W. Tippett’s “twenty-year journey…through the world of wounds, amputations and limb salvage,” complete with full-color illustrations.
This book is not for the faint of heart. Readers will need to steel themselves to view images of gangrenous limbs and amputated feet—not to mention pictures of therapy maggots—among other wound issues and treatment modalities. Yet Tippett’s self-described journey demonstrates how a physician can lovingly and successfully care for hospice and homeless patients and those in her private practice as she heals wounds and provides hope to an underserved population…
…Written in a modest, conversational tone, these readers are likely to applaud and learn from Dr. Tippett’s success in caring for this unique population, one whose cries—as the author states— were “begging to be heard.”
– Blueink Review, December 2020
Blog
Read blog posts from Aletha W Tippet.
We need maggots to the rescue
I have written about the use of maggots many times, but now it is more important than ever. The use of maggots needs to increase and become common use. The problem is antibiotic resistance which increasingly is invading our therapeutic regimens and is in danger of...
We need maggots
The other day I had the privilege of participating in a conference hosted by The Way to my Heart, an organization devoted to limb salvage and care of people with peripheral artery disease. We were talking about maggots and how helpful they can be. One of the ladies...
Can Turning be Eliminated with Proper Support Surface?
Can turning be eliminated with proper support surface?Abstract: A nursing home with 150 beds, with alternating pressure pads on every bed, routinely turned their residents every 2 hours in an attempt to prevent pressure ulcers. Even with this effort, their incidence...