Wound Assessment Strategies
- Tissue types/wound bed evaluation
- Necrotic tissue, granulation, hyper granulation, agranular
- Phases of wound healing , chronicity
- Factors impacting wound healing
- SKILL: Techniques for accurate wound measurements
Top Down Skin Injuries
- MARSI Medical Adhesive Associated
- Skin Damage
- MASD Moisture Associated Skin Damage
- IAD-incontinence Associated Dermatitis
- ITT-Intertrigo
- Skin Tears
- SKILL: Support periwound protection
Pressure Injuries
- Demystify staging
- Prevention: What have you overlooked?
- Risk assessment
- Treatment and dressing selection
- SKILL: Executing the risk assessment
Lower Extremity Wounds
- Arterial, venous, neuropathic
- Differentiate etiologies
- Appropriate therapies
- SKILL: Practice compression wrapping
Fistula and Ostomies
- Types of diverion
- Pouch Selection
- SKILL: Pouch application
Strategies for Topical Dressing Selection
- Dressing selection process – samples to compare
- When is gauze appropriate?
- Essential toolkit items:
- Cleansers
- Debridement options
- Gels, collagen
- Absorptive products, foam
- Antimicrobial, silver
- Heavy drainage versus minimal
- Large area wounds
- Dress difficult locations, tracts and undermining
- SKILL: Select dressing protocol for various wounds