Cheryl Aaron – Chronic Wound Care Clinical Lab: A Hands-On Approach to Ensure Progressive Wound Healing

Outline

The Chronic Wound

• What’s wrong? Identify causes of delayed healing
• How to jumpstart the healing cascade: strategies for success
• Nutrition’s role in healing chronic wounds
• Optimize healing; proper wound cleansing, managing bioburden, debridement types

Pressure Ulcers

• Pathophysiology and development of pressure ulcers
• Intrinsic and extrinsic factors
• NPUAP staging system
• Risk assessment
• Support surfaces, positioning, pressure mapping and diagnostic ultrasound

Arterial Disease and Ulcers

• Diagnostic signs and symptoms
• Characteristics of arterial wounds
• 6 Ps of arterial occlusion
• Diagnostic tests; TCPO2, Laser Doppler,
• Duplex Scan, LEA
• Other causes of tissue ischemia
• Minimally invasive treatments and surgical options

Diabetes and Neuropathic Ulcers

• Comorbidities and their effects on diabetic wound healing
• Causes of foot ulcerations
• Assessments for loss of protective sensation
• Characteristics of diabetic ulcers
• How to optimize healing in DFUs
• Total contact casts and offloading

Venous Disease and Ulcerations

• Diagnostic signs and symptoms
• Characteristics of venous ulcerations
• Diagnostic tests
• CEAP classification of chronic venous insufficiency
• Compression types
• Know how to accurately perform ABIs

Lymphatic system

• Anatomy of the lymphatic system
• What is lymphedema
• Staging
• Treatment

Lipedema

• What is it?
• Characteristics, onset and differential diagnosis
• Other often missed causes of lower extremity edema