Putting Comfort & Versatility into the Wound Management Toolbox

NSWOCC & WOC Institute Continuing Education Webinar: "Putting Comfort & Versatility into the Wound Management Toolbox"

This presentation will focus on providing the bedside clinician with comfortable and versatile compression options that may be used in the management of chronic venous insufficiency. Discussion will include developing patient-centered goals to enhance compression compliance. Selection of wound contact antimicrobial dressings to support compression therapy will also be reviewed. Patient case studies will be discussed in which AccuWrap (2 layer Compression Bandage System) and Ioplex (Iodophor Foam Dressing) were trialed to manage complex wounds in the presence of chronic venous insufficiency.

Objectives

1. Explore therapeutic compression options based on individualized assessment

2. Discuss a versatile antimicrobial wound contact dressings that may be used beneath compression

3. Review clinical case studies using AccuWrap (2 layer Compression Bandage System) and Ioplex (Iodophor Foam Dressing) in the management of complex chronic venous insufficiency