Clinical Review
Adjunctive Treatment for a Nonhealing Pressure Ulcer in a Patient with Spinal Cord Injury
Case in Point
Fed Pract. 2010 December;27(12):21
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Jessie M. Spencer, MD; Cheryl Gustavis Robinson, FNP-BC; Beverly C. Buchanan, RN, PhD, CWCN-AP, ET; and Linda Butler, RN, BSN
Dr. Spencer is the chief of the medical service, Ms. Robinson is a nurse case manager, and Dr. Buchanan is a nurse clinical specialist, all at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi.
A wound of 12 years' duration finally heals when negative pressure wound therapy and pulsed radio frequency energy supplement traditional wound bed preparation.