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Training Content & Events

The Wound Guy Training Menu

 

Customise your learning experience by selecting from the topics below:

Wound Healing Physiology

  • Stages and events in wound repair
  • Differentiating the healing from the non-healing wound
  • Understanding proteases
  • Reasons that wounds fail to heal

Patient & Wound Assessment

  • An wholistic assessment
  • Examining what can be measured & quantified
  • Role of photography in wound documentation
  • Assessment and wound categorization
    • Healable (acute)
    • Hard-to-heal (chronic)
    • Non-healable (palliative)
  • Assessment, goal selection and timeframe determination

Wound Bed Preparation

  • The models – TIME, TIMERS, DAMP, MOIST
  • Debridement – its function and methods
  • Wound cleansing – “wound hygiene”

Antimicrobial products – role, function and when to stop

Wound Dressing Selection Strategies

  • Exudate volume determined
  • Tissue type
  • Defined purpose

Wound Infection & Biofilms

  • Examining the structure, behavior and clinical mangement of biofilms
  • Reviewing the Levine Swab Technique & tissue culturing

Oedema & It's Negative Impact On Wound Repair

  • Reasons that chronic oedema develop – using the bath analogy inclusive of the “taps and the plug hole” imagery.
  • Outlining the components of interstitial fluid
  • Understanding a basic vascular assessment
  • Discussing the difference between graduated compression and static stiffness
  • Examining the variety of compression devices

Overview To The Many Diagnoses That Underlie “Leg Ulcers”

  • Ischaemic wounds
  • Venous leg ulceration
  • Vasculitis
  • Unusual presentations

Reviewing Current Skin Tear Management

  • Classification systems
  • Clinical tips
  • Dressing application
  • Prevention

Reviewing Pressure Injury

  • Definitions
  • Pathology
  • Assessment strategies & categorizations
  • Interventions and dressing options

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

  • How it works
  • Settings – continuous, intermittent and variable
  • Interfaces
  • Instillation
  • Devices

Review Of Common Pharmacology On Wound Repair

Examin the negative and positive influences that pharmaceuticals have on wound repair.

Alternative Therapies

  • Oxygen
  • Electrical stimulation
  • Extracorporeal shock wave
  • Skin substitutes

Review Of Diabetes & The Diabetic Foot Ulcers

  • Pathology of injury
  • Presentation
  • Treatment and prevention approaches

Examining The Cost Effectiveness Ratio

  • And it’s implications for clinicians and dressing product suppliers