Does Anyone Remember “The Purple Book”?

Does anyone remember “The Purple Book”?  Those of us who have been in the wound care world for a while know this book as the first compendium of clinical practice guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention.  Published in 1992, it was the main “go-to” resource for...

Wound Care for Geriatricians and Primary Care Practitioners

The following essay is the Preface to the volume of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine entitled Pressure Injuries and Chronic Wounds which I edited for Elsevier Publishers (reproduced with permission). Drawing upon three decades of experience caring for patients with...

New Reference Work on Pressure Injuries and Chronic Wounds

I am proud to introduce my volume in Elsevier’s series of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine entitled Pressure Injuries and Chronic Wounds.  To complete this work I invited leaders in the field to share their knowledge and expertise with the goal of educating...

Wet Cement—A Preventable Cause of Chemical Burn

An often unrecognized and completely preventable chemical injury is alkali burn from wet cement.  I recently published a case report and discussion on cement burns in Advances in Skin and Wound Care. Serious morbidity can occur from unrecognized cement burns, and...

Wound Care Education for Medical Doctors: Filling the Gap

Whenever I ask a group of doctors, “How many of you have had any training in care and treatment of chronic wounds?” it is the rare person who raises their hand. Despite the urgent need for medical doctors to know how to assess and treat pressure injuries and chronic...