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Oropallo, medical director of the Comprehensive Wound Healing Center and Hyperbarics at Northwell Health; and Kevin Keenahan, co-founder and CEO of Tissue Analytics, to find out about the telemedicine-based strategies that are changing the future of wound care.
40 Dressed for success
When choosing the most appropriate treatment for chronic wounds, healthcare professionals need to consider a range of different factors, including the nature and severity of the wound, ease of changing and removing the dressing, risk of infection and patient preference. Allie Anderson speaks to Alison
Schofield, tissue viability team lead and clinical nurse specialist at North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, about how clinicians can ensure they make the right decision.
43 Europe’s largest wound care conference European Wound Management Association
Operating room technology
44 The OR of tomorrow Hybrid operating rooms enable surgeons to use minimally invasive techniques that save patients’ lives and reduce risk – but the ongoing financial costs are still high. Will every OR eventually be
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hybrid, or are there times when an old-fashioned surgical theatre would do the job just as well? Kim Thomas asks Lars Kock, head of the department for vascular and endovascular surgery at Albertinen Hospital; Mark Slack, chief medical officer and co-founder of CMR Surgical; and Anthony Fernando, president and CEO of Asensus Surgical.
Infection control 47 Helping hands
While the pandemic has brought hand hygiene front of mind for healthcare professionals and the public alike, it’s not yet clear if it will prompt any lasting changes in attitudes and behaviours. Monica Karpinski talks to Rachel Ben Salem, deputy director for infection prevention control and head of nursing at King’s College Hospital; Dr Mamdooh Alzyood, infection prevention specialist and public health lecturer at Oxford Brookes University; and Dr Manjula Meda, consultant clinical microbiologist and infection control doctor at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, about what can be done to encourage hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers.
Critical care 49 Practical Patient Care /
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49 Keep your finger on the pulse With a respiratory pandemic raging, pulse oximeters have become more important than ever. However, previously underplayed weaknesses in their design have also become apparent. Tim Gunn speaks to Michael Sjoding, assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care and hospital medicine at the University of Michigan, and Olamide Dada, founder of UK charity Melanin Medics, about how pulse oximetry fails people of colour, and what doctors can do to make up for it.
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