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FEBRUARY 2016

Volume 99, Number 2

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About RIMJ

For Authors
• Contributors
• Letters to the Editor

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Editor-in-Chief
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

Associate Editor
Sun Ho Ahn, MD

Managing Editor
Mary Korr

Graphic Designer
Marianne Migliori

Advertising
Steve DeToy, Sarah Stevens

	18-page Special Section Wound Care Guest Editor: Paul Y. Liu, MD, FACS

18	INTRODUCTION State of Wound Care in Rhode Island Raman Mehrzad, MD; Bielinsky A. Brea, ScM candidate; Benjamin R. Johnston, PhD; Michael Vezeridis, MD; Paul Y. Liu, MD, FACS
22	Etiology and Treatment of Pedal Wounds in the Diabetic Patient Edmund T. DosRemedios, DPM, FACFAS; Louis R. Simeone, DPM, FACFAS
26	The Mechanism of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Wounds and Diabetic Foot Ulcers Benjamin R. Johnston, PhD; Austin Y. Ha, BS; Bielinsky Brea, BS; Paul Y. Liu, MD, FACS
30	Surgical Management of Chronic Wounds Benjamin R. Johnston, PhD; Austin Y. Ha, BS: Daniel Kwan, MD
34	Wound Healing in Older Adults Lisa J. Gould, MD, PhD, FACS; Ana Tuya Fulton, MD, FACP

	CONTRIBUTION
37	A Demographic Exploration of Whole Body Donors at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University Breanna Jedrzejewski, MPH, MD’17; Dale Ritter, PhD

	CASE REPORTS
40	A Case of Stroke due to Pulmonary Venous Thrombosis Samuel Belok, MD; Leslie Parikh, MD; Jamie Robertson, MD
42	An Atypical Presentation of a Thalamic Stroke in a Young Adult with Ankylosing Spondylitis and an Atrial Septal Defect Xiao C. Zhang, MD, MS; Matthew S. Siket, MD, MS; Brian Silver, MD

	PUBLIC HEALTH
45	Vital Statistics Roseann Giorgianni, State Registrar

	COMMENTARY (6-page section)
8	Break point JOSEPH H. FRIEDMAN, MD
11	Ethical decision-making and patients’ beliefs Herbert Rakatansky, MD

	PUBLIC HEALTH BRIEFING
13	Zika Virus: What Clinicians Need to Know Penelope H. Dennehy, MD

	WE ARE READ EVERYWHERE RIMJ readers' photos
16	Leper Colony at Palaupapa Molokai, Hawaii

	RIMS NEWS (4-page section)
47	Paint & Wine Class
47	Working for You
49	Why You Should Join RIMS

	PEOPLE (12-page section)
56	Appointments Recognition Obituaries

	HERITAGE
68	The Leper Boy of Pawtucket Massachusetts leper colony off nearby New Bedford, Mass., refuses to accept patient Mary Korr

	IN THE NEWS (complete 5-page section)
51	Butler joins efforts of Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation and Brain Health Registry partner to accelerate Alzheimer’s treatment by 2025
	Hasbro specialty clinics offer new outpatient services Cardiology, hematology and urology among services added to Fall River and East Greenwich sites
	South County Hospital opens inpatient palliative care program
53	Peter Kriz, MD, study shows that less physically adolescent ice hockey players have prolonged concussion symptoms Players should be discouraged from ‘playing up’ in youth and high school sports leagues
54	BankNewport Awards Rehabilitation Grant to Kent
	Bradley enrolling adolescents with OCD, anxiety disorders for study Research aims to improve available treatment for families

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