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Course Name: Comprehensive Clinical Wound Management 
Presenter: Pamela Scarborough, PT, DPT, CDE, CWS, CEEAA
Price: $130.00
Number of Contact Hours/CCU’s: 15
Target Audience: PT’s, PTA’s, OT’s, OTA’s
Included: One Link to Access the Entire Set of Videos, A Course Manual (e-mailed), Sign-in Sheet, Evaluation and Summary Sheet

 

Topics:

Anatomy and functions of the skin and phases of wound healing, Disease conditions and interventions that contribute to chronic wounds, Wound etiologies: pressure ulcers, Wound etiologies: peripheral arterial disease and venous insufficiency, Wound etiologies: lymphedema and diabetes, Foot and lower extremity examination and treatment, interventions and non-invasive lower extremity tests and measures, ABI demonstration, atypical wounds, skin changes at life’s end, wound assessment and documentation, Tools to monitor healing, wound related pain and identifying infections and treatment for infections, Wound management interventions

Presenter: Pamela Scarborough, DPT, CDE, CWS, CEEAA

Pamela is currently the Director of Public Relations and Education for American Medical Technologies, headquartered in Irvine, California. Her clinical career spans over 30 years having practiced a variety of setting including acute, out-patient, home health and long-term care.   Her clinical experience has included tradtional physial therapy, orthopetics and sports medicine, cardiac rehabilitation, and wound care. She considers herself a physical therapist generalist with specialtiy interests in diabetes and wounds.Pamela has published book chapters, articles, and monographs on the topics of diabetes and wound care, in addition to frequently being invited to present at conferences and educational activities around the country on these and related subjects. She holds an active licensed as a physical therapist in the state of Texas and is certified by two nationally accredited boards, the National Certification Board of Diabetes Educators, where she has held the credential of Certified Diabetes Educator for the past 20 years…and the American Academy of Wound Management where she has held the Certified Wound Specialist credential since the year 2000. She is on the board of directors for the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and has served on numerous symposium planning panels and association boards over her extensive career.

Course Description

This dynamic course discusses wound prevention, identification, assessment and treatment. Included in the course content is information on acute and chronic wounds and the phases of wound healing. The attendees will learn how to differentiate between wounds of various etiologies and identify factors that contribute to abnormal healing. There will be lecture and discussion on diabetes in general and how diabetes impairs the wound healing processes. In addition, content will describe current evidence based and best practices for wound care including dressing categories and biophysical interventions. The course includes a skills lab where participants will review and perform lower extremity examinations on their lab partners. A significant portion of the skills lab will be spent on performing hand-held Doppler screening to assess blood flow to the lower extremities and feet and how instruction on how to interpret the Doppler results for designing a plan of care or for referral for higher level vascular studies and interpretation by the physician. The course will conclude with case studies that will be reviewed in an interactive format.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion the participant will be able to demonstrate and have an understanding of:

 Identify characteristics of each phase of normal wound healing.
Compare and contrast the microbiology of acute and chronic wounds.
List intrinsic, extrinsic and etiological factors affecting wound healing outcomes.
Differentiate characteristics of pressure, arterial, venous, neuropathic, burns and lymphedema ulcers.
Identify normal and abnormal lab values, which affect the wound healing process.
Discuss nutrition and hydration needs for wound healing
Identify recommended wound assessment criteria including describing wound characteristics and the staging of pressure ulcers.
Perform lower extremity assessment including Doppler examination in a skills lab setting
Identify appropriate treatments options for chronic wound management for different the different etiologies.
Compare and contrast appropriate debridement methods for chronic wounds including the concept of Wound Bed Preparation (WBP).
Describe the methods for determining the bioburden in chronic wounds
Discuss the role of antimicrobials and antibiotics in wound care.
Recognize biophysical technologies available to increase the speed and quality of healing and promote improved healing outcomes.
Describe recommended documentation guidelines for wound description and monitoring.
Participate in interactive case studies.