This track provides attendees with updates on common and frequently encountered wounds and wound-related problems in clinical practice.
Objectives:
- Recognize and discuss updates in the assessment and standards of care for commonly encountered wounds
- Identify systemic and local factors associated with wound prevention and treatment outcomes?
- Describe advances in the prevention and management of the most prevalent wounds
- Appraise the evidence base of commonly used wound prevention and patient care strategies
This track provides attendees with advanced information related to the management of both frequently and infrequently encountered problems in clinical practice.
Objectives:
- Describe characteristics of frequently encountered wounds
- Assess the evidence base of wound prevention and treatment strategies
- Review approaches for the diagnosis, assessment and management of infrequently encountered wounds
This track provides attendees with updated information related to clinical and basic science research in wound healing and related areas important for clinical practice.
Objectives:
- Relate selected research aspects in wound care and healing
- Discuss advances in wound related physiology, pathology, epidemiology, prevention, assessment, management or education
- Apply scientific data and research advances into my research or clinical practice
- Analyze the effects of research on the future of patient care
The WHS track's aim is to provide cutting edge basic and clinical information and provide scientific rationale for evidence based clinical practice.
Objectives:
- Define the physiology of normal healing and risk factors for delayed healing
- Recognize the physiological principles and clinical scientific basis of wound prevention and healing
- Evaluate the evidence base of patient/wound assessment and care
- Utilize current knowledge base to develop evidence-based clinical care or pre-clinical/clinical study protocols
This track provides attendees focused information on rational approaches to the evaluation and treatment of patients with problematic, chronic wounds as well as modalities and palliative measures that will be useful in the everyday practice of wound management.
Objectives:
- Identify patient population and health system concerns that affect wound prevention and treatment outcomes
- Critique wound-related literature and research designs