Diabetic Foot Ulcer beyond Wound Closure: Clinical Practice Guideline.

A total of 37.3 million Americans have diabetes, and 96 million more have prediabetes. Hyperglycemia, the hallmark of diabetes, increases the risk for diabetes-related complications, including skin breakdown and cardiovascular disease.

Combatting Social Isolation, Anxiety, and Loneliness in Hospitalized Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an intervention related to social isolation and loneliness among hospitalized patients by improving: 1) social connectedness; 2) anxiety; and 3) loneliness and to evaluate experiences of the connection intervention.

Background: Social isolation and loneliness can lead to detrimental effects on morbidity/mortality and health indices. A connection intervention was developed by investigators using key strategies to promote connectedness, providing in-person contact for hospitalized patients to meet individual and self-care needs.

Relative Temperature Maximum in Wound Infection and Inflammation as Compared with a Control Subject Using Long-Wave Infrared Thermography.

Objective: The purpose of this retrospective case series was to determine whether a long-wave infrared thermography (LWIT, or thermal imaging) camera can detect specific temperature changes that are associated with wound infection and inflammation as compared with normal control subjects with similar anatomical wound locations.

Design: A retrospective, observational, collective, multiple case series of patients who underwent digital and thermal imaging of wounds in various states.

Setting: The subjects were selected from multiple sites including an outpatient wound care clinic, a wound care physician's office, a rehabilitation hospital, and a home healthcare organization.

A retrospective analysis of acoustic pressure wound therapy: effects on the healing progression of chronic wounds.

Background: Small clinical studies suggest adjunctive use of acoustic pressure wound therapy (APWT) may enhance wound healing, even in challenging patients. This noncontact low-frequency, nonthermal ultrasound therapy for assisting with the debridement of necrotic tissue from challenging wounds is generally better tolerated by patients for whom treatment-related wound pain, anticoagulation, or medical instability precludes sharp, surgical, or mechanical debridement.

Objective: To evaluate changes in amount of devitalized tissue, amount and type of wound drainage, and wound surface area after administration of APWT.