The hospital system switched resources from other specialities to focus maximum effort on the acute phase of COVID-19 disease and save lives. Outpatient wound care was suspended. Patients with chronic wounds had to fall back on the family doctor, home care, private nursing…
In Brazil, the first case related to the 2019-nCoV or Sars-Cov-2 virus occurred in February this year and, soon after, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic. Initially, the epicentre was the city of São Paulo, followed by Fortaleza and Manaus and, with the rapid spread…
So, you’re developing a wound care product? Wound healing is a real and growing problem, particularly in our ageing society. True effective wound care products are panacea. What motivates you??
The Gov’t decree of January 2017 on the new “Essential Level of Care” provided by the health service expanded the definitions of which wound care…
An amendment to the law in Germany regulating the provision of reimbursed devices for healing (including wound care products) and for aids to living is expected to take effect from March 2017…
So, what is going on?… It has been a long time in the making, but the long awaited Medical Device Regulation (MDR) is certainly going to pack a punch…
During our recent survey of 20 Wound Care Specialists based in Germany and the UK, we asked them
Whether they had local guidelines in their clinics for the use Innovative Wound Care Products (IWCP).
The 20 Wound Care Specialists that we recently surveyed in Germany & the UK had used &/or evaluated the following Innovative Wound Care Products (IWCP) in the previous 12 months.
The majority of the 20 recently surveyed Wound Care Specialists in the UK and Germany from both Primary & Secondary Care Settings said that Innovative Wound Care Products should be used more frequently.
It is estimated that in Italy approximately 2 million patients a year are treated for problems relating to skin lesions (ulcers and surgical wounds) and this figure is probably conservative as there is no national wound register.
