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...
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?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...
Hear Our Cry is a medical memoir that makes a compelling, emotional argument for biotherapy and compassion in wound care. Part memoir, part medical text, Aletha W. Tippett’s Hear Our Cry is both emotional and logical as it advocates for compassionate...
EVIDENCE TO REBUT THE RUSH TO APMS Abstract: While there seems to be much advice to use APMs to reduce pressure ulcer prevalence, this paper presents data that rebuts that position, showing much more...
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