“Inside-Out” Pressure Injuries: Applying the Angiosome Concept to Pressure Injury Development Speaker: Caroline Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS Pressure injuries can manifest as intact skin or broken skin normally over a bony prominence where the cause of injury has been...
How to Choose an Antimicrobial Wound Dressing: Questions to Ask and Factors to Consider Speaker: Laura Swoboda, DNP, APNP, FNP-BC, CWOCN-AP Chronic and hard-to-heal wounds have created a global crisis. Biofilm is present in the majority of chronic and hard-to-heal...
Healing the Heel: Pressure Injury Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment Speaker: Diane Langemo, PhD, RN, FAAN Pressure injuries impact quality of life. Education and prevention are essential in reducing the prevalence of pressure injuries. Tissue destruction in pressure...
The Role of Collagen in Healing Chronic Wounds Speaker: Gregory A. Bohn, MD, ABPM/UHM, MAPWCA In a perfect wound environment, healing phases occur in an organized and timely fashion. Chronic and hard-to-heal wounds, however, do not move correctly through the phases of...
Supporting the Post-operative Amputee: Improving Outcomes under Life-Changing Circumstances Speaker: Paulinder Rai, DO, MPH Patients facing amputation need education, emotional support, nutritional support, and physical therapy before surgery. The post-operative...
