EO2 Concepts articles

As we begin this New Year we have an opportunity to begin with a fresh start as we pursue our passion to promote and speed the healing of wounds! Our role as Wound Care Clinicians has risen to a whole new level of essential care for an extremely high risk population.

In this current Covid-19 climate that we are living in, we are all facing challenges that we have never dealt with before.  Individuals with chronic wounds (diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, venous ulcers, arter

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy.  Most of the food you eat is broken down into sugar and released into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. Insulin acts like a key turning on cells with sugar as fuel (energy).  Diabetes affects your body’s ability to produce or use that insulin.  Living with diabetes is hard. It’s eas

Ever since the American revolution, women have served on the battlefield as nurses, water-bearers, cooks, laundresses, and saboteurs.  It was not until 1901 that the Army Nurse Corps was established, followed by the Navy Nurse Corps in 1908, and finally the Air Force (AF) Nurse Corps in 1949.1 The Air Force, Army, and Navy are the only US military branches with their own Nurse Corps. Currently, around 10,000 full-time nurses are on active duty.2

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Every year, surgeons perform a lower-limb amputation due specifically to diabetes on approximately 73,000 patients in the US alone.  Annually there are over 1 million limb amputations worldwide.  Most of these amputations are performed for the treatment of non-healing diabetic foot ulcers that resulted from PAD (Peripheral Arterial Disease). These non-healing foot ulcers are caused by high blood glucose levels, which accelerate the direct damage to the nerves and blood vessels in th