Advanced Wound Dressings

"Significant advances in wound dressing technology have resulted in a myriad of dressing choices for wound-careclinicians, providing more than just an inert wound cover. The establishment of a moist wound environment under modern wound dressings and the optimization of the healing responseare now the goals expected of these dressings. However, the use of wound dressings, particularly traditional dressings such as gauze, frequently results in wound and peri-wound tissue damage that impairs the wound healing response, counteracting any of the dressings' healing benefits. Therefore, to maximize the healing benefits wounds covered by today's wound dressings must minimize tissue disturbance (physical as well as chemical)."

Rippon M, Davies P, White R. Taking the trauma out of wound care: the importance of undisturbed healing. J Wound Care. 2012 Aug;21(8):359-60, 362, 364-8. doi: 10.12968/jowc.2012.21.8.359. PMID: 22885308.

Clinicians attending this course will learn how to assesschronic wound composition, exudate, and othercharacteristics to drive their dressing choices. This will resultin improving their patient outcomes with evidence-basedchronic wound dressing application. It is now more importantthan ever to understand the dressing choices that are available, the frequency in which they need to be changed and appropriation of choices to provide our patients with the best wound care possible and least amount of trauma andpain along with it.

Highlights

• Determining the most effective advanced wound dressings and the impact on the microbiology of the wound
• Best practices and guidelines for treatments of this population to improve your outcomes and patient satisfaction

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants