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Professional development and academic satisfaction from a wound programme in Latin America: 10 years of experience

In the field of wounds, ostomies and burns, it is essential to have professionals with advanced...

Characteristics of COVID-19 patients who developed pressure injuries: a scoping review

The search strategy identified a total of 233 publications. After removing duplicates (n=108), a...

Perioperative pressure injury prevention: National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel root cause analysis toolkit 3.0

If the following conditions are met then the pressure injury may be an OR-acquired pressure injury:...

IWII Wound Infection in Clinical Practice consensus document: 2022 update

The document was updated by the IWII Board using a team-based approach. The project chairs...

Establishing a consensus on wound infection definitions

The study sought to explore wound infection-related terminology through a rapid review of...

Guidelines for the use of topical oxygen therapy in the treatment of hard-to-heal wounds based on a Delphi consensus

The Delphi method is an accepted technique for establishing expert consensus on a given topic. The...

Healing outcomes and predictors among patients with venous leg ulcers treated with compression therapy

The authors reviewed 380 medical records and included 377 records in the final analysis because the...

Correlation between vitamin D levels and hard-to-heal wounds: a systematic review

This systematic review followed PRISMA guidelines and was conducted by one independent researcher....

Prediction of stump healing in lower limb amputation: a narrative review

As pointed out by Imran et al.17 poor diabetes control increases the likelihood of amputation among...

Clinical indicators of wound infection and biofilm: reaching international consensus

The aim of this study was to reach international consensus relating to clinical indicators for a...

Role of sugar-based compounds on cutaneous wound healing: what is the evidence?

For systematic investigations of in vivo studies, we searched articles published in PubMed database...