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Wound Care Course Topics

Wound Care Course Topics

WoundEducators.com aims to offer healthcare professionals the most up to date wound management information at affordable prices. Nearly everyone will experience at least one type of wound in their lifetime, making wound care education is extremely important. Our wound care courses cover a broad spectrum of wounds, wound management practices, and wound products currently available….

Wound Bed Preparation- Exudate Management

Wound Bed Preparation- Exudate Management

Moisture balance in the wound bed is essential to wound healing. The body produces exudate as a response to tissue injury, and the amount of exudate is dependent upon the pressure gradient within the tissue itself. Wounds must be moist enough to promote cell growth and proliferation, as well as support the removal of dead…

What’s Included in Our Wound Care Courses?

What’s Included in Our Wound Care Courses?

The Smart Choice for Online Wound Care Certification Courses! WoundEducators started with a mission to provide the very best virtual education for professionals looking to advance their careers through wound care. We created the very first 100% online wound care certification course and have been at it ever since. With WoundEducators, you can enroll with…

Extremit-Ease: Not Your Mother’s Compression Garment

Venous insufficiency is a common condition which results in edema due to elevated pressure within the capillary beds, as well as distention of the capillary beds. Venous insufficiency is often improved in the morning when the patient has been laying down all night, and worsens when the patient is up and the affected limb(s) are…

Wound Care Education: How Do Wounds Affect YOUR Skin?

Wound Care Education: How Do Wounds Affect YOUR Skin?

The process of wound healing is a complex bodily function. This natural process involves inflammatory vascular and connective tissue working in tandem with epithelial cells over a period of time. As such, wound care education requires a basic understanding of how wounds actually affect the connective tissue that is human skin. Our skin consists of…

Less Common Approaches Used To Treat Wound Infection

Less Common Approaches Used To Treat Wound Infection

The typical treatment for infected wounds continues to include antimicrobial therapy, however other therapies are gaining in popularity due to the rise in antibiotic resistance. Maggots Maggot Debridement Therapy is the medical use of live maggots (fly larvae) for treating non-healing wounds. Maggot therapy has also been around for a long time, going all the…

Wound Modalities Utilized in Wound Care: Promising Modalities Used Less Commonly

Wound Modalities Utilized in Wound Care: Promising Modalities Used Less Commonly

In this series, we have been focusing on wound care modalities that are commonly used in wound care management. Now we turn our focus to lesser known and less common wound care tactics. Monochromatic Infrared Energy (MIRE) Monochromatic Infrared Energy (MIRE) involves the delivery of near-infrared energy to the skin using diode pads. This therapy…

Modalities Utilized in Wound Healing: Pulsed Lavage

Modalities Utilized in Wound Healing: Pulsed Lavage

In the last segment, we discussed whirlpool treatments; however, in some cases whirlpool is not convenient or available. When whirlpool is not an option, pulsed lavage with or without suction may be used. Functions Pulsed lavage uses a wound irrigant under pressure, which is powered by an electronic device, to irrigate and cleanse the wound….