HEALING POWER


ADVANCED WOUND CARE REQUIRES SOPHISTICATED SCIENCE, TREATMENTS, AND COLLABORATION AMONG A RANGE OF SPECIALTIES, AS EXPLAINED BY KINDRED HOSPITAL MELBOURNE


A patient’s open wound, be it chronic, acute, traumatic or post-


surgical, is a portal for infectious agents to invade and create local and systemic infection. Patients who have had surgery, been seriously ill or injured often arrive at long-term acute care hospitals, such as Kindred Hospital Melbourne, with multiple co-morbidities and serious wounds. These include pressure ulcers, vascular ulcers, neuropathic ulcers, draining wounds, surgical wounds and traumatic wounds. Healing complicated wounds requires multifaceted, inter-disciplinary,


evidence based and advanced science to maximize and enhance wound repair. Total consideration of all aspects related to the patient must be considered including infection, co-diseases, nutrition, pain, systemic health, patient goals and personal belief systems.


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OPTIMIZING THERAPY Kindred Hospital Melbourne (KHM) offers an in-patient wound care


program that can change the direction of a wound from recalcitrant or complicated to healing. Developing and succeeding in the art of wound care requires specifically trained clinicians to produce the best outcomes efficiently and economically. All members of Kindred’s health care team collaborate with each other and each patient to optimize outcomes. “MIST Therapy is newly offered here,” says Donna Crossland, MSN, RN,


CWOCN, wound care coordinator for the facility. MIST Therapy accelerates healing by using a low frequency ultrasound that stimulates cell biological healing processes, decreases wound bioburden, increases blood flow and offers cleansing with some debridement of devitalized tissue.


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