Telehealth and Wound Care in the Age of COVID-19

With COVID-19 taking the world by storm, many wound care patients are left in the dust. Skilled nursing homes have started to ban visitors, including outside wound care specialists, to try to protect the vulnerable patients inside. Wound patients are canceling at-home appointments and are rejecting clinic visits due to fear of quarantine. Post-operative patients are now requiring different ways for wound monitoring that do not require going to the doctor. Wound care and the new challenges it now faces is affecting millions of people across the nation – 8.1 million Americans require some form of long term care. A

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