2010 Accepted Abstracts

Author 1 last name	Abstract title	Poster numbers
Acuna	Active Leptospermum Honey* and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy** for Non-Healing Post-Surgical Wounds	CS-001
Adams	In-vitro Bacterial Barrier Properties Of Silver Containing Carboxymethylcellulose Wound Dressings	LB-001
Adams	A Comparison between Moisture Balance at a Simulated Wound Dressing/Wound Bed Interface Between Various Dressings	LB-002
Agosti	In the face of economic disarray: should clinicians be think 'negative'?	CS-002
Agosti	Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Painful and Complicated Wounds: Addressing Difficult Situations with NPWT	CS-003
Agosti	Use of innovative dressing system for prevention of skin tears and injuries in institutionalized adults	CS-004
Agosti	Developing an evidece-based, validated risk assessment tool specific to foot and lower extremity skin breakdown	CR-001
Aickin	Evaluation of high breathability foam dressings to prevent strikethrough of fluid.	LB-003
Andersen	Sustained antimicrobial effect of novel alginate foam dressings comprising ionic silver	LB-004
Anwar	Investigation of Zeta potential, Peel adhesion, Swelling, Permeability and Tensile properties of Chitosan Films for Wound Healing	LB-005
Arnold Long, MSN, RN, CRRN, CWOCN-AP, ACNS-BC	Incontinence-Associated Dermatitis (IAD) in a Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) Facility: Completion of a Prospective Study	CR-002
Arnold Long, MSN, RN, CRRN, CWOCN-AP, ACNS-BC	Ostomy Complications in a Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) Facility	CR-003
Arroyo-Novoa	The effectiveness of small doses of ketamine with morphine on decreasing pain responses during open wound care	CR-004
Aslam	Rehabilitation of the patient with chronic wounds	IR-001
Aviles	Results of Ultrasound Assisted Wound Therapy on Complicated Patients to Promote Accelerated Proliferation of Granulation Tissue, Rapid Removal of Nonviable Tissue and Managing Colonized Wounds.	CS-005
Azzaro	Decrease HAPU in Acutely Ill Med-Surg Patients with Multiple Co-Morbidities.	IR-002
Baharestani	Progressive Mobility Among Critically Ill and Critically Injured Patients: An Examination of Clinical Outcomes Prior to the Implementation of Standardized Guidelines	CR-005
Bates	A Systematic Review of Five Clinical Trials for Treatment of Acute Wounds With a Bilayered Living Cell-Based Treatment	CR-006
Bates	Modulating Secondary Intention Healing of Chronic Wounds: Summary of Clinical Experience With a Bilayered Living Cell-Based Treatment	CR-007
Batista	Evaluation of Rosemary Extract on the Apoptosis Inhibition of Human Keratinocytes Used in the Treatment of Wounds	LB-006
Beitz	Validating Wound Care Algorithms for Use by Registered Nurses	CR-008
Bissonnette	A preliminary study based on costs and efficacy of nanocrystalline silver dressing used in combination with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in the treatment of severe diabetic foot ulcers.	CR-009
Blevins	Clinical Case Series: Use of Noncontact, Low-Frequency Ultrasound Therapy (NLFUT)* to Improve Outcomes of Non-healing Graft Sites	CS-006
Blevins BSN, RN, WOCN, WCC	Case Series: Utilizing Different Dressing Techniques with Versatile Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (VNPWT*) on Four Complicated Wound Patients.	CS-007
Bohbot	Evaluation of a NOSF (Nano-Oligosaccharide Factor) Lipido-Colloid Matric, in an In Vitro Dermal Equivalent Model	CR-010
Bohn	Fun with Fruit: A Portable Cognitive Training Model for Teaching Surgical Wound Debridement	IR-004
Bohn	Cost Effectiveness and Implementation of an Easy to Apply Total Contact Casting for Diabetic Grade 2 Neuropathic Foot Ulcers in a Multi Physician Clinic	CS-008
Bohn	Transforming Powder Dressing and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Recurring Pilonidal Cyst Disease	CS-009
Bohn	Unique Properties of Transforming Powder Dressing Combined with Triamcinalone to treat Necrobiosis Lipoidica	CR-012
Bohn, MD	Transforming Powder Dressing combined with Total Contact Cast may shorten days to heal Wagner Grade 2 Neuropathic Diabetic Foot Ulcers.	CS-010
Bohn, MD	Combining Transforming Powder Dressing and Cadexomer Iodine: Prolonging Release of Actives in Wound Care.	CR-013
Bohn,MD	New Transforming Powder Dressing as a Cost Effective Management Technique in a case of Difficult to Heal Peristomal Pyoderma Gangrenosum	IR-005
Bondogke	Clinical Efficacy of an Alternative Foam-based Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System*	CS-011
Boone	Does TASC II Classification Prospectively Predict Short and Long Term Outcomes of Superficial Femoral Artery Interventions	CR-014
Boone	The Effect of Percutaneous Intervention on Wound Healing in Patients with Mixed Arterial -Venous Disease	CR-015
Boone, MD	A Prospective, Non-Comparative, Clinical Evaluation to Determine the Effect of a New Non-Adhesive Absorbent 3-Layer Silver Barrier Dressing* on the Reduction of Bioburden and Closure of Hard to Heal Venous Leg Ulcers	CR-016
Bowler	The Importance of Dressing Conformability on Antimicrobial Action of Silver-Containing Wound Dressings: An In Vitro Study	LB-007
Brantley	Treatment of Chronic Lower Extremity Wounds in Diabetic Patients Using Pulsed Radio Frequency Energy	CS-012
Brennan MD	Patients with Venous Leg Ulcerations have Diminshed Quality of Life: Analysis of a Multi-Center Randomized Clinical Trial	CR-017
Buff	Poly-N-acetylglucosamine Nanofibers from a Marine Diatom Promote wound Healing and Defensin Expression via both Akt1-dependent and -independent Pathways	LB-008
Campbell	Adding a Functional Amino Acid Nutritional Supplement to Wound Care Regimens Improves Outcomes	CR-018
Campbell	A novel dressing technique for the management of highly exudating lower extremity wounds utilizing gauze-based negative pressure wound therapy	CS-013
Campbell	The synergistic use of cadexomer iodine and gauze-based negative pressure wound therapy to facilitate closure in a variety of wounds	CS-014
Campbell	Case Series of Oxidized Regenerated Cellulose/Collagen and Silver Dressing in the Treatment of Wounds in an Acute Care Medicine Population	CS-015
Carman	The Impact of Autologous Platelet Rich Plasma Gel on	CR-020
Carmel	Challenges and Management of the Terminal Patients with Arterial Ulcers	CR-021
Cerny	Interdisciplinary Collaboration Across the Continuum of Care for Necrotizing Fasciitis	IR-006
Cerny	How to Reduce Prevalence Rates with a Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program	IR-007
Chaiken	The use of Active Leptospermum Honey on difficult to heal wounds of various etiologies.	CR-022
Chin	An evaluation of an alternative NPWT system: Is it efficcacious and cost efective?	CS-016
Cockwill	Early observation of potential differences between foam-based and gauze-based NPWT - an observational report	CR-023
Collin	A case study series of an atraumatic wound contact layer following hand surgery	CS-017
Conner-Kerr	Retrospective Investigation into Pulsed Radio Frequency Energy (PRFE) Wound Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Pressure Ulcers	CR-024
Cordrey	Working with Cultural Differences in Patient Care	IR-008
Cowan	Initial Clinical Assessment of A Point of Care Device to Rapidly Measure MMP Activities in Wound Fluid Swab Samples	CR-025
Cruger	Spinal Cord Injury and Pressure Ulcers	IR-009
Cullen	An evaluation of wound dressings to manage wound exudate and conform to the wound bed	LB-009
Cullen	The benefits of oxidized regenerated cellulose for wound healing	LB-010
Cullen	In vitro and clinical data demonstrating the ability of Collagen/ORC/Silver to overcome the hostile chronic wound environment	CR-026
Curran, PT, CWS, CLC	Case Studies in Out Patient and Acute Care Settings utilizing a Non-Adherent Antimicrobial Silver Alginate Dressing*	CS-018
DaDamio, PTA, BSW	A Case Series Utilizing Low Pressure, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) System* Treating Two Leukocytoclastic Vasculitic Leg Wounds and Two Post-surgical Abdominal Wounds	CS-019
Darby	Effect of three wound dressings on animal wound healing model	LB-011
Darby	Performance of antimicrobial dressing using new time kill contact method, Comparative antimicrobial efficacy of silver containing wound dressings in vivo	LB-012
Darby	Exudate Management properties of Aquanova, Aquanova Ag and Aquacel Ag	LB-013
de Leon	Use of Platelet Rich Plasma Gel in Chronic Pressure Ulcers of the Pelvic Region	CS-021
de Leon	The Use of Platelet Rich Plasma and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in the Treatment of Large Post Surgical Abdominal Wounds	CS-022
de Leon	Use of Platelet Rich Plasma Gel (PRPG) with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) to Treat Surgically Debrided Wounds	CS-023
de Leon	The Use of Current Generating Dressings under Negative Pressure	CS-024
Deo	Evidence Based Practice for Pediatric Wound Care: Utilizing Active Leptospermum Honey as a Primary Dressing for Chronic Wounds	CR-027
Dietzler	The utilization of bio-engineered skin substitutes in the management of chronic diabetic foot ulcers in an outpatient clinic setting	CS-025
Dinato	Cell Therapy Applied to Diabetic Foot Ulcer Treatments	CR-028
Douglass	Prevention in Pediatrics: Impact of a Soft Silicone Self-Adherent Bordered Foam Dressing on Sacral Pressure Ulcer Incidence in the Pediatric ICU	CR-029
Dowd	The Application of Allograft for Chronic Wound Closure	CS-026
Driver	Pulsed Radio Frequency Energy Therapy Promotes Healing of Lower Extremity Wounds -- Data from the Regenesis Wound Registry	CR-030
Dunn	A Prospective Multi-Centre Clinical Evaluation of Gauze-Based Negative Pressure Wound Therapy: Results from 131 patients	CR-031
Eason	The effect of Celox Pro in a vascular closure model in Swine	LB-014
Economon	Successful patient care of irregular shaped wounds - the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Experience	IR-010
Economon	Management of the Open Abdomen - the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Experience	CS-027
Eldridge	Enhanced cosmetic results in African American skin pigmentation using a polymer hydrogel with oxygen free radical binding technology.	IR-011
Eldridge	At Home or in Hospital - A simple yet effective OTC wound gel that makes a wound be gone.	CS-028
Eldridge	Advancing wound care treatment with a novel hydrophilic gel. Practictioners and Patients Experience- Success Stories from happy patients..	IR-012
Engelmann	Persistence of Cells from Bilayered Living Cell-Based Treatment: Summary of Over 15 Years of Experience	CR-032
Ennis	Wound Closure Rates in Three Subjects Using Customized Wound Dressing	CR-033
Erba	Combination of Taliderm and VAC Enhances Wound Healing in db/db Mic	LB-015
Escandon	Pilot Clinical Study Report: Molecular Assessments. A Prospective Pilot Study of MIST Therapy's Effectiveness on Bacterial Bioburden Reduction and Wound Progression in Refractory Venous Leg Ulcers	CR-034
Fabbi	Case Study of Autologous Platelet Rich Plasma in the Treatment of Complex Ulcers	CS-029
Fedorko	Pyoderma gangrenosum first line therapy immunosupressants or hyperbaric oxygen?	CS-030
Feldman	Case Study: Incorporating Tubular Elastic Bandage* into the Complete Decongestive Therapy Treatment of Lower Extremity Massive Localized Lymphedema with Recurrent Wounds.	CS-031
Fierheller	An Acute care facility's multi-faceted approach to pressure ulcer prevention and management	IR-013
Finley	Delayed influx of alternatively activated macrophages and increased IL-20 in diabetic wounds	LB-016
Fletcher	Successful Treatment of Venous Stasis Ulcers with Combination Compression Therapy and Pulsed Radio Frequency Energy in a Patient Scheduled for Amputation	CS-032
Fletcher	The Surgical Dressing Manufacturers Association (SDMA) Core Curriculum for wound care	IR-014
Fong	Safety and Feasibility Case Series: Initial Use of a Novel Ultraportable NPWT Device in Humans	CS-033
Foros	Alginate foam as next generation moist wound care product	IR-015
Foster	Randomized Comparison of Hypochlorous Acid to 5% Sulfamylon Solution as Topical Therapy Following Skin Grafting	CR-035
Frade	Phototherapy and autologous ketatinocytes in a fibrin schaffold improve the healing of the autoimmune ulcers.	CS-034
Frye	A Prospective Controlled Study: Topical Wound Oxygen (TWO2) Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Diabetic Foot Ulcers	CR-036
Frye	A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate Different Treatment Regimes with Topical Wound Oxygen (TWO2) on Chronic Wounds	CR-037
Fulton	Ovine (Sheep) Collagen as an Alternative to Bovine	LB-017
Fylling	Efficient Rapid Wound Improvement in the LTAC Setting	CR-038
Gabriel	Single-Stage Reconstruction with a Meshed Dermal Substitute, Split-Thickness Skin Graft and V.A.C.® Therapy	CS-035
Gales	Differences in Pressure Ulcer Healing Velocities by Stage	IR-017
Gales	Demographic Trends of Wound Services Provided In Long Term Care: A Descriptive Summary	IR-018
Gales	Expected Wound Healing Rates In Long Term Care: A Retrospective Descriptive Study	IR-019
Galvan	A New Cellulose Acetate Wound Dressing* Designed to Rebalance the Wound Environment in Challenging Chronic Venous Ulcers.	IR-020
Garcia-Lavin	Noncontact ultrasound in the management of Pyoderma Gangrenosum	CS-036
Gavin	Effective use of Cation Technology* in Patients with Complex Lower Extremity Wounds and Underlying Diabetic Comorbidity	CS-037
Gentry	The "Sacral Heart" Dressing Study: Use of an Absorbent Silicone Self-Adherent Foam Dressing Across Acute Care Settings	CS-038
Gil	Pseudomonas aeruginosa military wound isolate inhibits the growth of MRSA in porcine deep partial thickness wound healing model.	CR-039
Gleaves	Stages of Wound Healing- How oxygen free radicals effects the inflammatory phase.	IR-021
Gleaves MD.FACS	Advantages of using a hydrophilic polymer gel with oxygen free radicals on Split Thickness Skin Grafts -	CS-039
Gloeckner	Transforming Powder Wound Dressing Relieves Pain and Manages Moisture Restoring Quality of Life	IR-022
Gloeckner	Peristomal Skin complications treated with Transforming Powder Dressing : A new Technology improves standard approaches to management	IR-023
Gregory	Features of a Patient-Friendly Fecal Management Device	CR-040
Gregory	Odor Control in Fecal Management Devices	LB-018
Gribnau	Which dressings or topical agents are best to cover donor sites of split-thickness skin grafts?	CR-041
Gribnau	Local and systemic wound care: available evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews	CR-042
Gruccio	Successful implementation of a pilot pressure ulcer prevention program	IR-024
Gustafsson	A case study series of a soft silicone sealant	CS-043
Gwilliam	Increased Risk for Non-Healing Wounds with Neutron Bean Radiotherapy (NBT)	IR-025
Haddow	"Dress and Compress for Success" - The development of an educational brochure on the treatment and prevention of venous ulcers for the public based on validated data.	IR-026
Hadley	Use of Soft Silicone Dressing with Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome	CS-044
Hall	Innovative Treatment of Elbow Pressure Ulcer	CS-045
Hamad	Development of a clinical microbiology laboratory assay for the presence of bacterial biofilms on chronic wounds	LB-019
Hardy	The Hemostatic properties of Aquanova dressings	LB-020
Harper	A novel treatment protocol for the management of pressure ulcers	CS-046
Heasley	Evaluation of a Silver Collagen Based Amorphous Gel in Expedience of Wound Debridement	CS-047
Heasley, MSN, MEd, CWCN, WCC, DAPWCA, CNS	Evaluation of a Silver Collagen based Amorphous gel and Its' Correlation with Pain Relief for Arterial Insufficient Ulcers	CS-048
Hermans	Evaluation of the efficacy of a new mattress technology by mapping the pressure on the trochanter major	CR-045
Hoggarth	Evaluation of the use of hemostatic agents and the residual particles left in the wound.	LB-021
Holloway	Opportunities for Postgraduate Education in Wound Healing	IR-027
Huang	Ulcer recurrence rate after radiofrequency ablation* of incompetent veins	CS-050
Hudson	A Prospective, Open, Multi-Centre Study to Evaluate the Functionality and Device Performance of a New Portable Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System* in the Management of Acute and Chronic Wounds	CR-046
Hulten	A laboratory evaluation of the sealing effects of wound contact layers	LB-022
Isbary	Cold Atmospheric Argon Plasma Significantly Decreases Bacterial Load of Chronic Infected Wounds in Patients	CS-020
Ison	Moldable technology simplifies pouching over rods	CS-051
Jagdeo	The effect of Infrared and Red Light Emitting Diode on Normal Human Skin Fibroblast Proliferation, Viability and Toxicity In Vitro	LB-023
Japour	Response of Chronic Ulcers to Pulsed Radio Frequency Energy Therapy Across Various Sites of Care	CS-052
Jarvinen	Target-seeking anti-fibrotic compound enhances wound healing and suppresses scar formation in mice	LB-024
Johnson	Accellerated Healing & Reduction of Pain With Negative Pressure and a Silver Lining	CS-054
Johnson	Wound Closure with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy	CS-055
Johnson	When Pressure Ulcers Hit Home	IR-028
Johnson	Caring - It's Skin Deep - Implementing EBP Interventions for Pressure Ulcer Prevention	IR-029
Jones	Calciphylxis: An Increasing Incidence??	CS-056
Jones	Tales From The Bedside - Creative Education For Pressure Ulcer Prevention	IR-030
Jones	Tracheostomy Related Pressure Ulcers	IR-031
Jovanovic	Compatibility of a Collagenase Wound Debrider with Broad Spectrum Antimicrobial Polypeptides	LB-025
Jovanovic	Compatibility of Clostridium Collagenase with Various Types of Surfactants	LB-026
Karr	Ten diabetic foot ulcer case series of cryopreserved human fibroblast-derived dermasubstitute, Dermagraft® in healing diabetic foot ulcerations	CS-057
Keller	Novel Uses of Active Fluid Management 4X48 Wrap Dressings	CS-058
Khan	Antibiotic susceptibilities of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates using dual antimicrobial treatments involving an alginate oligomer	LB-027
Kingsley	Reducing the Number of Clinic Visits for Patients with Hematomas or Seromas after Caesarian Section (C-Section) Incisions	CS-059
Krasner	Six Sticky Wickets that Commonly Occur in Wound Care Lawsuits	IR-032
Krol	Use of bi-layered living skin construct* facilitates healing in chronic non-healing radiated wounds.	CS-060
Labrecque	Teaching wound care in University: a French Canadian experience!	IR-033
Lachenbruch	Fluid Loss and Skin Temperature on Air Fluidized Therapy and Other Support Surfaces	LB-028
Lam	The Design and Development of a New Burns Dressing	LB-029
Landsman	Cryopreserved human skin allograft (TheraSkin) is effective for closing diabetic foot ulcers	CS-061
Landsman	Can a moisture regulating cover dressing reduce the number of Living Skin Equivalents grafts needed to achieve wound closure with diabetic foot ulcers?	CS-062
Lee	A New Surgical Dressing Range	LB-030
LeMesurier	A Case Series Evaluating a New Povidone-Iodine Dressing	CS-063
Leon, RN	Non-traditional application for negative pressure wound therapy	IR-034
Lerman	Retrospective Evaluation of Treatment with the SNaP Wound Care System vs. Modern Dressing Protocols	CR-047
Liden	Use of a Mobile Intermittent Pneumatic Compression Device and Super Absorbent Dressings for the Treatment of Lower Extremity Ulcers Complicated with Venous Hypertension and Lymphedema	CS-064
Liebert	Minimal bacterial transfer during and following hydrosurgical debridement*	LB-031
Liesenfeld	Stay-Fresh Medical Textiles to interrupt pathogen transfer in healthcare settings.	LB-032
Liesenfeld	Antimicrobial dressings: how does antimicrobial efficacy get tested?	IR-035
Liguori	The Use of a Friction and Shear Reducing Dressing in the Treatment of Residual Limb Wounds: A New Dressing Evaluation.	IR-036
Lin	Trajectory of healing followed for 4 weeks in 9 complicated patients using a novel wound dressing that may help balance the wound environment	CS-065
Lindsay	The silver release profile of antimicrobial wound dressings: standardizing in vitro evaluations	LB-033
Lippitt	Does a Rehab stay improve outcomes in pressure ulcer patients status post surgical repair?	IR-037
Livingston	Nanocrystalline silver knitted polyester as a long term dressing solution	CS-066
Lo	Pre-Diabetic patients undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy are vulnerable to developing obstructive airway disease.	CR-048
Lozano-Platonoff	The first epidemiologic study in Mexico in a specialized wound and ostomy care center.	CR-049
Luu	Topical Adjuvants in Wound Healing in Various Rat Models	LB-034
Ma	Radiofrequency Energy Therapy of Venous Ulcers	CS-067
Maggio	Evidence Based Practice: Active Leptospermum Honey Dressings for use in an Indigent Outpatient Wound Clinic	CS-068
Malmsjo	Tissue trauma and pain during NPWT and wound filler removal (foam and gauze)- examined by immunohistochemistry for substance P	LB-035
Malmsjo	Variable, Intermittent and Continuous Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Using Foam or Gauze: The Biological Effects on the Wound Bed Including Micro and Macrodeformation, Granulation Tissue Quantity, Wound Bed Characteristics and Tissue Ingrowth into the Wound Filler	LB-036
Man	Use of Polymeric Membrane Dressings* immediately after fractionated facial laser* resurfacing procedures improves outcomes	CS-069
Man	Use of Polymeric Membrane Dressings* after occlusive deep facial and neck chemical peel improves outcomes	CS-070
Man	Intra-operative use followed with post-op application of polymeric membrane dressings reduces post-op pain and edema after full face lift surgery	CS-071
Manzel	Longitudinal Yarn Compression Stockinet Improves Senile Skin Tensile Strength	CS-072
Margrave	FLOAT-ing Heel Ulcers Into Preventive Action	IR-016
Marquardt	Surgical site infections after median laparotomy treated under NPWT with PHMB gauze	CR-051
Marquardt	Challenge in woundcare: the open abdomen with intestinal fistula and stoma. Providing patient comfort and mobility by PHMB gauze under NPWT	CR-052
Marsh	Healing rates of refractory leg ulcers using keratin-based wound dressings.	CS-073
Masson	Cytotoxicity and experimental wound healing effect of Copaifera langsdorffii oleoresin	LB-037
Mastrangelo	Initial Analyses of the prospective study randomized on the anti-decubitus lesion mattress cover	CR-053
Masturzo	Use of Bi-layered Cell Therapy for Wounds Complicated by Ischemia	CS-074
Mauro	Development of a Protocol for the Treatment and Resolution of Diabetic Foot Ulcers with Clinical Complications	CS-075
McCollum	Keeping Pressure Ulcers at Bay	IR-038
McElroy	Evaluation of three new probes for use with an Ultrasonic Wound Care System* in difficult to treat wounds	IR-039
McInroy	Are silver-containing dressings effective against bacteria in biofilms?	LB-038
McInroy	An in vitro evaluation of a new non-adherent silver alginate dressing to evaluate its suitability for use in the management of infected chronic wounds	LB-039
McIntosh	Efficacy of a Powered Replacement Mattress* for the Prevention of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers	IR-040
Michel H. E.	Surface Modification Technology results in an increase in envelopment in pressure redistribution mattresses	CR-054
Milne	The Effect of Different Incontinence Briefs on Skin Barrier Function in Institutionalized Adults	IR-041
Milne	Achieving Optimal Outcomes While Simultaneously Reducing Dressing Changes with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy	CS-076
Milne	Serendipity: Use of a Hydroxyethylmethacrylate (HEMA) Powder Wound Dressing Reduces Lower Extremity Wound Pain in Patients with Venous Wounds	IR-042
Milne	Evaluation of a Cyanoacrylate Dressing to Treat Peristomal Irritant Dermatitis Under Ostomy Skin Barrier Wafers	CS-077
Milne	Evaluation of a Cyanoacrylate Dressing to Treat Skin Tears in the Acute Care Population	IR-043
Milne	A Comparison of Collagenase to Hydrogel Dressings in Wound Debridement, Maintenance Debridement and Wound Healing	CS-078
Milne	Optimizing Fecal Containment Using Individualized Balloon Volumes	CS-079
Minatel	Phototherapy associated sulphadiazine or phytotherapy cream for treatment of the leg ulcers in diabetic patients	CR-055
Moffett	The Effect of Pulsed Radio Frequency Energy (PRFE) Fields on Cyclo-Oxygenase, Nitric Oxide Synthase, and Heme-Oxygenase Expression Using Human Diploid Fibroblasts.	LB-040
Molyneaux	Use of Advanced Wound Care Modalities Results in the Healing of a Complex Wound of the Upper Extremity and Avoids Autografting in a High Risk Elderly Female with Necrotizing Fasciitis	CS-080
Montalvo	Improved Outcomes managing keloid scars with use of polymeric membrane dressings	CS-081
moore	Phase angle, an alternative physiological tool to assess wound treatment	CR-050
Murphy	Enhancing the wound bed environment in a disadvantaged post-surgical vascular wound with a novel combination of advanced wound care modalities.	CS-082
Nametka	Creation of a National Organization to Promote Evidence Based Wound-Ostomy Practice Across Federal Healthcare Agencies	IR-044
Neiswender	Extracellular Matrix in Oomphalocele.	CS-083
Niezgoda	Enhanced Wound Healing by Binding Reactive Oxygen Species	IR-045
Niezgoda, MD	Novel hydrophilic gel (Wound-Be-GoneÆ) enhances healing via oxygen free radial binding technology.	CS-084
Nosworthy	Comparison of a silver alginate and HydrofiberÆ dressing	LB-041
Nusbaum	In-vitro study of mixed bacterial populations with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.	CR-057
O'Neill	Outcomes From Anesthesia for Sharp Surgical Debridement of Chronic Wounds	CR-058
Pastar	Single and mixed-species biofilms induce specific immune response in porcine partial thickness wound healing model	LB-042
Penny	The Use of an Advanced Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in the Treatment of Complex Diabetic Wounds	CS-085
Percival	The exposure of bacterial biofilms, developed in a CDC Biofilm Reactor, to silver based hydrogels	LB-043
Peters, RN CWS	An Evaluation of a New Wound Management System	IR-047
Pham	How Much Antibiotic is Appropriate After Surgical Excision of Osteomyelitis?	CS-086
Phillips	Practical Application of Collagen in Home Health Wound Management	CS-087
Pierpont	Kaposi's Sarcoma: Diagnostic Dilemma	IR-049
Popovich-Durnal	Budget Impact of Adopting a Fecal Management System in Hospital Intensive Care Unit: a Single Center Experience	CS-088
Potts Ph.D.	Activated Collagen Accelerates Wound Repair	CR-059
Raizman	Evidence Based Practice for Wound Care: Utilizing Active Leptospermum Honey as a Primary Dressing for Wounds of varying etiology	CS-089
Ranger	Use of Active Fluid Management Dressings with Integrated Foam Layer to Manage Exudate from Superficial Wounds Affecting Negative Pressure Wound Therapy	CS-090
Ranger;CWOCN	Noncontact Low-Frequency Ultrasound as an Alternative to Pulsatile Lavage and Whirlpool in Painful Wounds	CS-091
Rappl	Platelet Rich Plasma - A Comparison of Outcomes from Clinical Trials on Chronic Wounds	IR-051
Rappl	Log & Blog, Greet & Meet, Discern & Learn: Introducing the Patient/Caregiver Resource and Blogging Website of the AAWC!	IR-050
Ratliff	Case Series of the use of a Collagen Dressing on 9 Chronic Wounds	CS-092
Ratliff	"The SCI Team has arrived!!!"	IR-052
Reddy	Evaluation of Herbal Formulation in the Management of Diabetic Ulcers	CS-093
Reed	Successful patient care of large soft tissue defects - the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Experience	CS-094
Reeves, RN, PhD	Venous ulcer management: Do we follow best practice by applying compression?	CR-060
Reggin	Continuous external tissue expansion*- a novel intervention for closing fasciotomy wounds.	CR-061
Regulski	The Treatment of Chronic Wounds with Pulsed Radio Frequency Energy	CS-095
Rehder	Cell Therapy with Autologous Human Keratinocytes and Fibroblasts co-cultures Applied to the treatment of Burns	LB-044
Reyna	Active Leptospermum Honey for Pediatric Wound Care: Moving Evidence into Practice	CS-096
Rifler	Emergency Department Treatment of Low-Exuding Traumatic Wounds, Sutured or Otherwise with a Ready-To-Apply Adhesive Interface	CS-097
Robinson	Pulsed radio frequency energy adjunctive treatment administered with negative pressure wound therapy of a non-healing pressure ulcer in a patient with spinal cord injury	CS-098
Roche	Comparison of Two Methods For Applying Polysporin Powder in Combination With Collagenase Ointment for Treatment of Infected Wounds	LB-045
Rock	Use of a New Flexible Soft Silicone Sealant in Conjunction with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in the Management of Complex Wounds	CS-099
Roguljic	Wipe Out Wounds Program (W.O.W.)	IR-053
Samimi	Honey Under the V.A.C. May Change the Wound Volume	CR-062
Samimi	Osteomyelitis: The Relationship Between Diagnostic Tools	CR-063
Schank	Multiple Uses for Gelling Foam Technology	CS-101
Schessel	The Treatment of Stage IV Debubiti with External	CS-102
Schierle	A prospective study on the use of chitosan-based hemostatic dressings in over fifty consecutive patients: optimizing bedside and office-based debridement, hospital resource allocation, and mid-level provider utilization	CR-064
Schmutz	Emergency Department treatment of low-exuding traumatic wounds, utured or otherwise, with a ready-to-apply lipdo-colloid dressing	CS-103
Schuren	Pressure and slippage during 48 hours of compression therapy: a study on healthy volunteers	CR-065
Schwartz	Use of A Collagen Microscaffold Dressing* to Reduce Postoperative Donor Site Pain: A Pilot Study	CS-104
Segovia	Clinical Benefits of Active Leptospermum Honey: Oncologic Wounds	CR-066
Semenets	Bioinformatics in wound healing: PG or not PG? SNPs as genomic biomarkers in pyoderma gangrenosum	LB-046
Senno	Utilizing a New Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System to Meet Patient Specific Needs	IR-054
Serena	Topical Bismuth Subgallate/Borneal (Suile ) successfully resolves recalcitrant atopic dermatitis in a two year old.	CS-105
Serena	Topical Oxygen delivered via a closed cell foam matrix in patients with peripheral arterial disease and critical limb ischemia: a case series.	CS-106
Serena	A Case Study Evaluation of a Robotic System Producing Customized Wound Treatments	CR-067
Serena	Factors which Determine the Ease of Donning and Removing Elastic Compression Stockings: Results of a Clinical Trial.	CR-068
Serena	The Human Forearm Biopsy Model for Acute Wound Healing: The Missing Link?	CR-069
Serena	Pain reduction and exudate control in venous leg ulcerations using a non-adherent silver alginate dressing: A case series.	CS-107
Serena	The Development of a Cooperative Study Group to Evaluate Multi-Modality Therapies in Wound Healing.	IR-056
Serena	Clinical Research. A Requirement for a Wound Care Center of Excellence.	IR-055
Serena	Bilayered Living Cell-based Treatment for Pressure Ulcers: Results of a Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter, Open-Label Clinical Trial	CR-070
Sessions	Acute wounds closed pain-free and with invisible scars through use of drug-free polymeric membrane dressings.	CS-108
Shafer	A Novel Approach to Improving Wound Outcomes through an Evidence-Based Learning Management System	IR-057
Shalom	Effect of Topical Steroids on Hypertrophic Granulation Tissue	CR-071
Sheftel, M.D., F.A.A.D.	Wound Healing Initiation through Bioelectric Wound Care Technology	CS-109
Shilo	Human recombinant type-I collagen matrix, a novel safe and effective scaffold for cutaneous wound healing	LB-047
Siegel	Tracking the incidence and development of pressure ulcers in post surgical patients on two different specialty mattresses.	CR-073
Silcock	Evidence for Collagen/ ORC therapies - in vitro ex vivo and in clinical practice	CR-074
Slocum	Use of high frequency diagnostic ultrasound to assess tissue integrity	CR-075
Sptiz	Patient Selection for the Use of a Novel Powder Dressing in Home Care	CS-110
St. John	Altrazeal Transforming Powder Dressing	CS-111
Stegberg	A laboratory evaluation of a soft silicone sealant	LB-048
Stephens	From Lab to Leg - The importance of correlating in-vitro and in-vivo test systems to clinical experience	CR-077
Sterling	Patient perceptions of a new anti-microbial dressing	CS-112
Sternweiler	Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Utilizing a Unique Non-Woven Polyester Dressing with a Non-adherent Contact Surface	CS-113
Stone	Incision and Drainage (I & D) Treatment of Abscesses in an Emergency Department: Clinical Evaluation of a 100% Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose (NaCMC) Ribbon Dressing with Ionic Silver and Strengthening Fiber* as a Primary Dressing	CS-114
Strilko	A Safe and Effective Alternative to Debridement of Lower Extremity Ulcers With Use Active Leptospermum Honey Dressings	IR-058
Sudarsky	Combination Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment and Vacuum Assisted Closure in Complex Trunk Wounds	CS-115
Sylvia	Is There an Association Between the Length of Stay in the Emergency Department and the Development of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers?	IR-059
Tamir	Mesh reeinforced silver rope dressing for acute infected cavity wounds	CS-118
Tamir	Open Infected Wound with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Treated Successfully with New Reinforced Rope Dressing	CS-117
Tan	The Smoking-HOT Dilemma: Is it continued tobacco smoking or long term hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT) exposure that causes pulmonary function changes in chronic wound patients?	CR-078
Thibodeaux, MD, FACS	Multiday Application of a Novel Wound Management System that Wicks and Sequesters Exudate Away from the Wound Bed	IR-060
Thomas	Reducing Wound Colonization by "Replacement Therapy" (Probiotics) using Lactobacillus reuteri, in a Triphasic Wound Model	LB-050
Thomas	Tracking MIC distribution by different Wound Specimens: Is there an optimal source to measure changes in resistance patterns?	LB-049
Thomas	Are Wound Specimens Colonized with the Most Resistant Isolates and Associated with Antibiotic Pressure? or Establishing the "Critical Ratio" as a Microbial BioMarker for Chronic Wound Classification/Status	CS-119
Timko-Progar	Comprehensive Care of the Anasarca Patient	IR-061
Toney	The Role of Ready-To-Use, Lightly Absorbent Dressings With Non-Adherent Contact Layer As Primary Wound Care Dressing	CS-121
Treadwell	The Effectiveness of Sorbion Sachet S* in the Treatment of the Highly Exudating Wound	CS-122
Trigilia	Negative Pressure Wound Therapy as an Alternative to Surgical Flap Closure	CS-123
Valdes	Comparison study with a honey dressing and collagen powder for healing of deep partial thickness wounds using a porcine model.	CR-080
Van Der Kar	All Hand Sanitizers are Not Created Equal: Demonstration of a Persistent Antimicrobial Effect	LB-051
Veneman	An Alternative Approach To Prevent Lip Pressure Ulcers In The Intubated Patient	IR-063
Walker	Invitro inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteases (MMPs ) 2 and 9 through the depletion of metal ions using Aquanova * a novel gelling wound dressing	LB-053
Walker	Comparative invitro inhibition of Metalloproteases (MMPs ) 2 and 9 through the depletion of metal ions using Aquanova Ag * and Aquacel Ag® **	LB-052
Walker	A case series to assess the efficacy of an innovative negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT)* device and dressing in three patients with venous leg ulcers (VLU's) who failed standard compression therapy.	CS-124
Warner	Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers and Fall Risk Scores	CR-081
Warren	A reduction in the environmental impact of mattress production	CR-082
Webb	The healing effects of a 100% sodium carboxymethylcellulose (nacmc) dressings with ionic silver and strenthening fiber* on unique wounds at one county health care delivery system	CS-126
Webb	Evaluation of new lifting product to promote patient hygiene and reduce risk of pressure ulcers	CS-125
Willemsen	A continuum of wound care-Prepare and progress with effective debridement and negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT)	CS-127
Willis	Development of Unit-Based Skin Saver Teams Using REACT	IR-064
Wilson	Application of polymeric membrane dressings to Stage I pressure ulcers speeds resolution, reduces ulcer site pain and reduces staff time devoted to management of ulcers.	CS-128
Winkler	Methylfolate Palliates Pain in Chronic Stasis Ulcers Under Treatment with Elastic Compression	CR-085
Winkler	Elastic Compression of Bioengineered Skin Substitute Improves Chronic Stasis Ulcer Healing: Fuzzy Yarn Elastic Compression Controls Wound Bed Edema	CR-084
Winkler	Aggressive Mechanical Bioburden Control Improves Wound Healing Rates: Liberal 22.5 kHz Ultrasonic Debridement Reduces Bioburden	CR-083
Wong	Comparative Effectiveness of Addition of Noncontact Low Frequency Ultrasound versus Utilization of Advanced Product Wound Care Alone: A Case Series	CS-129
Worth PA-C	Tackling the "Bad Penny" of a Vascular Wound Clinic: A novel approach to the treatment of Venous stasis Ulcers	CS-131
Worth PA-C	Bioelectric wound care: A viable alternative to amputation for patients with Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI)	CS-130
Wyndham-White	The Use of a New Gauze-Based Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) System to Assist Wound Closure	CS-132
Yaszay	Negative Pressure Therapy For Closed Spine Incisions	LB-054
Yates	Use of a New Active Bi-layered Dressing* in the Management of Lower Extremity Ulcers in Patients with Lymphedema	CS-133
Zehrer	Bench and Clinical Performance Studies Demonstrate Improvements to an Adhesive Foam Wound Dressing	CR-086

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