Carmen Thompson – Multidisciplinary Wound Care

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Carmen Thompson – Multidisciplinary Wound Care

Outline:

Multidisciplinary Wound Care

• Standards of care, ethics, and legalities
• A patient with a wound requires interdisciplinary care
  • Why are you involved in wound care
• Cost, revenue, as well as insurance cost savings, are all important.

Wound Healing Basics

• Anatomy and physiology for the skin and surrounding structures
• There are three stages of wound healing
• Factors that affect wound healing

Differentiating Between Wound Types

• Acute
  • Post-Operative
  • Burns
  • Trauma
• Chronic wounds
  • Venous ulcerations
  • Arterial ulcerations
    • Testing — ankle-Brachial index
  • Pressure ulcers
  • Diabetic/neuropathic Ulcers
  • Other palliative radiation

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Now Let’s Make a Plan: Assessing and Planning for the Treatment of the Wound

• Assessment tools
  • Tests
  • Scales
  • Measurements
• Labs
• Nutrition
• The patient’s functional needs
• Other factors that affect wound healing

Execute Your Treatment Plan

• Preparing the wound bed
  • Is there an infection?
  • Do you have to debride?
  • Is it dry or wet?
  • Is the wound tender?
• How do we clean it?
• What is the topic?
• Dressings
• If possible, is this treatment effective for the patient?
• Does edema exist?
• What can we do to go beyond the ordinary?
  • Theraputic modalities

Documentation

Team Communication, Monitoring, & Progress