What’s New
Reducing risk of pressure injuries through repositioning: Webinar recap
Pressure injury prevention is top of mind for healthcare providers. Are your protocols stuck in tradition or keeping up with current best practices?
Compression therapy: 3 ways to encourage patient compliance-Medline
Discover how the right approach can help improve chronic wound healing. An edema specialist reveals the three “knows” of patient compliance.
Diabetic foot ulcers versus venous and arterial ulcers: 3 downloadable posters
Help staff distinguish between the most common lower extremity wounds with educational posters that you can print and share.
Medical device-related pressure injuries: What to know and how to prevent them
Your patients may require ventilation to help them breathe now more than ever. Build awareness of device dangers to protect patients from skin breakdown.
Expert Q&A: Why it’s a good idea to consult with other skin and wound care clinicians
See how patient outcomes can improve by collaborating with other WOC nurses.
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NEW WEBINAR WITH LIVE Q&A
Understanding the vicious cycle of pressure injuries
Best Practices
Five-layer foam dressing: How this innovative technology helps you care for wounds
Learn how a layered wound care dressing helps fight friction and shear for patients at risk for skin breakdown.
How do you help prevent pressure injuries at the heels?
Preventing pressure injuries/ulcers is an important aspect of both clinical care and the healthcare system at large.
Fight MASD with the right system of products
Healthy skin needs moisture, but too much can compromise skin integrity and cause harm. Moisture damage often occurs when patients are incontinent, but moisture can also be a problem for any age group and on many different areas of the body.
Prevention & Treatment
Does one good turn deserve another? A look at the practice of repositioning
Repositioning patients to prevent and treat pressure injuries has been a long-standing tradition. This session will explore the physiological principles behind repositioning in addition to myths commonly encountered in its practice. Strategies to best incorporate evidence-based practice will be shared.
Intertrigo: Empower staff to manage moisture and reduce skin breakdown
Knowing how to use a product is an essential part of your job. But looking beyond that—to why it works—empowers you and your staff to choose the right strategy every time.
Peristomal skin: Dr. Joyce Pittman explores proper management strategies
Dr. Joyce Pittman is Associate Professor at University of South Alabama with a research focus on pressure injuries, ostomy related complications and evidence-based practice.
Operational Performance
Riverside Healthcare: A case study on systemness
Systemness began with standardizing wound care.
Healthcare economics: Costs of preventing versus treating skin breakdown
Clinicians work hard to protect patients from skin damage that may contribute to pressure injuries. But preventable pressure injuries/ulcers still occur.
Health economics: The right wound care products help drive cost savings
How choosing the right wound care products can help improve patient outcomes and save money
Creating a supply formulary that works
8 steps to take to standardize and cut costs.
News room
- October 25, 2021Michigan hospital prioritizes inclusive skin and hair care
When Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital leadership was looking for skin and hair care products to meet the unique and diverse needs of their acute care patients, they turned to Medline for help…. - September 20, 2021Prioritizing workforce engagement: PruittHealth invests in skin health program to empower staff
This article is part of a series focusing on workforce engagement in post-acute care. The Medline Newsroom will feature interviews with healthcare leaders to discuss their approach to investing in lon… - September 16, 2021Medline’s FitRight Assessment Tool helps providers optimize incontinence product selection, saving time and money
One of the most time-consuming activities in post-acute settings is correctly outfitting patients who are living with incontinence. Not only is there a possibility for injuries, but using the right pr… - July 13, 2021Safe patient handling and mobility webinar on July 15 with Dr. Susan Gallagher
The benefits of early mobilization include reduced ICU-acquired weakness, improved functional recovery within the hospital, improved walking distance at hospital discharge and reduced hospital length… - April 14, 2021Passion for wound care unites clinicians across the world to create sustainable change
It started with a simple idea: empower clinicians through wound care education. That concept quickly flourished from a regional effort in South America to a comprehensive online series now available a…
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