Webinar Description:

Pressure injuries take a huge toll in pain and suffering and financial costs to the patients and healthcare systems.  A pressure injury should ideally be closed/healed but palliation is sometimes the only possible pathway.  In all cases, state of the art methods should be applied to treat or palliate the wound/patient. The speakers will present the challenges in treatment, and the methodologies, some rather new, that has become available for the treatment of pressure injuries, particularly in the area of wound bed preparation and supportive debridement of necrotic tissue and slough.

This webinar is brought to you by the Urgo Foundation.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the magnitude of challenge in the treatment of pressure injuries, the core reason why near 100000 lives are lost for the proximate cause being a pressure injury.
• Discuss what the traditional methodologies have been to treat pressure injuries, that still occur inspite of much preventative efforts.
• Discuss what are the core treatment problems that impede optimal treatment in various settings.
• Discuss newer technologies that can be used to improve patient lives, particularly in the area of wound bed preparation, improvements to the reconstructive ladder, and debridement of slough and necrotic tissue. 

Speakers:

Abigail E. Chaffin, MD, FACS, CWSP, MAPWCA
Kara Couch MS, CRNP, CWCN-AP, FAAWC

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