Technology Is a Useful Servant but a Dangerous Master September Issue Highlights of this issue include exploring biosurgery, optimization of oxygen therapy in your clinical practice and overcoming challenges; mastering the art of compression, and the scope of a collagen-elastin dermal replacement scaffold. We also explore the types of wounds in clinical practice amenable to fish skin technology.
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teeped in the depths of the Norwegian fjords, historian, teacher, and political scientist Christian Lous Lange came up with this famous quote. As one of the world’s foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism, he was a sceptic on the role that technology would play in our future lives. None so true as in the wound care world. This September issue is packed with articles about the latest in innovation from the wound world. However, also featured in the issue are two of the ‘oldest’ wound treatment modalities: biosurgery and compression bandage treatments. This beautiful combination of old and new enables the skilful wound care practitioner to delve deep into their armamentarium for a potential solution to the challenging wound. Wound Masterclass as an innovative, sustainable model of publishing endeavours to bring the combination of tried and tested modalities and techniques, with an open mind, to the emerging technologies. Digital health encompasses categories such as wearable devices, telehealth, telemedicine, mobile health, health information technology, and customized and personalized medicine. Digital health has the ability to improve the diagnosis and treatment processes as well as supporting the clinical decisions we have to make for the benefits of patient care; we have two excellent articles exploring the future of digitizing wound care. An alligator eye forms our cover for this issue, and the animal world continues to lead in innovation. Alligator derived hyaluronic acid quells the inflammatory phase of wound healing
through a dual interaction with the host and the microbiome, and bioactive collagen from discarded frog skin has been derived as a ‘patch’ for advancing the healing process. We wait with baited breath to see further developments with these new modalities in the future. Don’t miss our exciting range of articles in this issue including: Biotensigrity, Jump Starting the Challenging Wound, and Navigating the PostCOVID Landscape. We also have an in-depth look at electroceutical dressings and their role in clinical care, electrical stimulation and the clinical scope of Omega3 fish skin grafts. Our Masterclass Guides reach the breadth of variety in wound care modalities, including topical wound oxygen therapy, decellularised fish skin technology, collagen-elastin skin dermal replacement scaffold, extracorporeal shockwave therapy, and algorithm of management of c-section wounds, virtual reality in wound education and management. We are delighted to announce our free MasterSeries of live, concise and interactive sessions in November mastering new concepts in oxygen therapy, advances in nutritional therapy and surgical site infection prevention. Don’t miss the opportunity to join in the discussion with global experts covering the most important topics! Lastly we have just been announced as the global media partner to the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care. We look forward to this collaboration to improve education, training and wound care. Enjoy this issue!
Miss Negin Shamsian Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon (Locum) Chief Editor of Wound Masterclass London, United Kingdom
Wound Masterclass - Vol 1 - September 2022
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