VOLUME: PUBLICATION DATE: Jan 04 2010
Issue Number:
January Online 2010
Author(s):
Matthew Livingston R.N. B.S.N C.W.S
Twitter is a growing communication technology that is widely used in the United States and throughout the world. This growth includes the expectation of more than 100 million active users worldwide by the end of 2010.1 Twitter enables individuals to send short [...]
VOLUME: PUBLICATION DATE: Jan 04 2010
Issue Number:
January Online 2010
Author(s):
STAFF
A Look Inside of ClickCare, LLC
ClickCare, LLC was started in upstate New York in 1995 and is now supported throughout the world by multiple physicians and nurses, information services executives and developers, and innovative engineers and consultants. Archives have been expanding since 2001 with the availability of [...]
Rayner R, Carville K, Keaton J, Prentice J & Santamaria N
Abstract
WoundsWest is an innovative Western Australian (WA) project under Ambulatory Care and Chronic Disease Management Reform undertaken in partnership with the Western Australian Department of Health, Curtin University of Technology and Silver Chain Nursing Association.
WoundsWest’s Online Wound Management Education Program is a core component [...]
The complex interactions that characterize acute wound healing have stymied the development of effective therapeutic modalities. The use of computational models holds the promise to improve our basic approach to understanding the process. By modifying an existing ordinary differential equation model of systemic inflammation to simulate local wound healing, we expect to improve the understanding of the underlying complexities of wound healing and thus allow for the development of novel, targeted therapeutic strategies. The modifications in this local acute wound healing model include: evolution from a systemic model to a local model, the incorporation of fibroblast activity, and the effects of tissue oxygenation. Using these modifications we are able to simulate impaired wound healing in hypoxic wounds with varying levels of contamination. Possible therapeutic targets, such as fibroblast death rate and rate of fibroblast recruitment, have been identified by computational analysis. This model is a step toward constructing an integrative systems biology model of human wound healing.
From Fraunhofer news release
Telemedicine facilitates communication between family physicians, hospitals and nursing services – yet current solutions lack flexibility and are consequently very expensive. A new software program is now available that can be tailored to a range of applications.
Wounds suffered by patients with diabetes tend to heal poorly. For treatment to work, the [...]
