Evaluate the breakdown of chronic wounds and the impact of wounds on national health care
Discuss opportunities in philanthropy and volunteering to improve care of chronic wounds.
Determine the different options and types of minor amputations of the foot.
Determine why patients and the wound center team would benefit from research trials.
Identify the optimal type of clinical team that can perform industry sponsored trials
Discuss rare causes of chronic wounds
Discuss total contact casting and off-loading as an option of care of a patient with a challenging venous ulcer.
Discuss the optimal minor amputation for different types of chronic foot wounds.
Determine how inflammation plays a role in chronic wounds.
Discuss compression therapy as an option of care of a patient with a challenging venous ulcer.
Demonstrate compression therapy as a method of treatment for patients.
Demonstrate total contact casting as a method of treatment for patients.
Discuss when and how to use vascular lab tests as an option of care of a patient with a challenging venous ulcer.
Demonstrate the information and advantages of using vascular lab tests
Determine techniques that will allow for optimal evaluation of lower extremity venous wounds
Discuss and demonstrate options for diagnostic testing of lower extremity venous wounds.
Interpret proper time frames of using endovascular therapies to heal venous leg
Discuss mechanisms on a large and small scale that lead to a venous stasis ulcer.
Determine measures to prevent venous stasis ulcer using pathophysiology knowledge.
Propose modern soft tissue and orthopedic techniques to treat common chronic diabetic foot wounds.
Name pitfalls in common chronic diabetic foot wound management
Explain the rational for using total contact casting
Describe patients which benefit most from TCC.
Explain therapeutic options regarding skin substitutes
Develop Treatment algorithms to properly incorporate skin substitutes and other ancillary treatments.
Describe evidence-based protocols for HBO treatment in healing diabetic foot wounds.
Evaluate optimal criteria for patient selection of using HBO treatment to heal diabetic foot wounds.
Discuss how to optimize outcomes after minor amputation from chronic wounds.
Propose the use of diagnostic testing for endovascular medicine and open surgery to heal the wounds for lower extremity ischemia.
Interpret proper time frames for using diagnostic testing to heal lower extremity arterial wounds.
Discuss how chronic wounds can lead to major amputation.
Discuss how to optimize outcomes after major amputation from chronic wounds
Propose the use of endovascular medicine and open surgery to heal the wounds for lower extremity ischemia.
Interpret proper time frames for using endovascular medicine to heal lower extremity arterial wounds.
Discuss key factors to creating a multidisciplinary wound center in your institution.
Discuss the benefits of patient centered care with all specialties focused on patient outcomes.
List key medications that inhibit wound healing
Discuss those medications specifically designed to enhance wound healing
Discuss key factors that determine why wounds respond to negative pressure wound therapy.
Discuss new innovative types of devices for negative wound pressure.
Discuss the role of biofilms in chronic wounds and determine strategies to eliminate biofilms in chronic wounds.
Discuss pitfalls leading to a dysfunctional wound care team.
Prescribe effective leadership to optimize care in a wound care center
Design care algorithms that are globally centered around the patient
What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?
Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?
What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?
How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?
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