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The Importance of a Wound Care Strategy Reading Time: 2 minutes Being the largest organ of the body, human skin is responsible for several vital functions including contributing to immunity, temperature regulation, sensation and vitamin production. As a dynamic organ, the cells are constantly shedding and being replaced. With a wound or skin disorder, the functionality of…

How Wound Care Management Can Help Prevent Pressure Ulcers Reading Time: 3 minutes Did you know that hospitalizations related to pressure ulcers cost between $9.1 to $11.6 billion per year? Pressure ulcers present costly challenges to the patient and healthcare systems increasing the need to educate and train staff on preventative measures. The good news is that wound…

Partner Spotlight – Billings Clinic Reading Time: 3 minutes At CūtisCare, we work with various health care centers to provide flexible and customized health care solutions and wound care administration services. A variety of health care centers make use of our wound care resources, ranging from hyperbaric oxygen therapy to web and classroom-based medical education. Our new Partner…

Wound Care For Diabetes Reading Time: 3 minutes Diabetes is a disease that affects your entire body. Your ability to regulate the glucose in your blood, your circulation, immune system and even sensation is altered by this disease. By affecting these processes in your body, diabetes prevents wounds from healing at the rate that they should. Prolonged…

The Benefits Of A Specialized Wound Care Management Company While medical advancements continue to benefit the healthcare industry, certain medical issues are on the rise. America currently faces an increase in the aging population, cases of diabetes (typically Type 2), cardiovascular disease, and obesity. As a result of these health concerns, an increased need for…

Hyperbaric Chamber Treatment For Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) The CDC estimates that traumatic brain injuries account for approximately 30% of injury related deaths, with about 2.8 million traumatic brain injury related ER visits recorded in 2013. Today, outpatient program centers provide patients with oxygen therapy to accelerate healing of traumatic brain injuries. What Is Traumatic…

The Basics of Wound Care Management Basic wound care management is an area that makes use of a great deal of resources at any health care facility. For every surgery and for every injury treated, as well as any lesion-causing conditions, there will be a dependence on the ability to provide effective wound care. There…

What Are The Advantages Of A Wound Specialist? The term wound specialist is not one that many people are familiar with or truly understand. A wound specialist is a medical professional who has studied further, solely focusing on different types of wound and the actions that need to take place when intervention is necessary. Nurses,…

Hyperbaric Chamber – Benefits of Treatment Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is administered to patients in a monoplace, or multiplace, chamber depending on their condition. During this process, the patient is exposed to 100% oxygen, which promotes healing throughout their body and the fighting of infections. It is used to treat many medical conditions, as well…

Types of Chronic Wound Care Treatments A chronic wound is one that has failed to pass through the normal healing phases of a wound, but this does not mean that it has to stay that way and worsen over time. Medicine and technology are constantly evolving, creating new opportunities for healing, where there was no…

The Role Of Wound Care Management In A Hospital Excellence in wound care has a direct knock-on effect that benefits both patients and health care providers. Not to be confused with wound care product companies, wound care management companies are an outsourced healthcare service focusing on a specialized approach to wound care in all areas…

Types Of Chronic Wounds Treatable By Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is known to accelerate the healing process by delivering concentrated oxygen throughout the body. When it comes to wound treatment, traditional wound dressings and clinic visits often become expensive over time and results in delayed healing. Oxygen therapy can assist in stimulating…