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Chair: Louise Toner – Head: Business & Professional Development, Institute of Health, Social Care & Psychology, University of Worcester
AM Sessions
9.15 Wound assessment & dressing selection - matching the needs of the wound to a range of products
Comprehensive wound assessment is integral. Review of dressing products in the market. Decision making.
Helen Fearnley – Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, Bradford & Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust
10.00 New developments in venous leg ulcer management
Developments in the classification & performance of compression bandages. Developments in ulcer management modalities. Strategies for the prevention & management of ulcer related skin conditions.
Jill Robson – Vascular Nurse Specialist,
Leg Ulcer Forum
10.40 Exhibition and Morning Coffee
11.15 Best practice: How to detect, treat & manage infected wounds in the community
Recognising a clinical infection - telling the difference. Bacterial involvement in wounds. Pathogenic effects of bacteria. Symptoms of wound infection. Treatment options.
Jackie Stephen-Haynes – Consultant Nurse & Senior Lecturer in Tissue Viability, Worcestershire PCT & University of Worcester
12.00 What's new in wound care
Electrical stimulation. Skin & its protection, new silicone products. Honey. Ultrasound. Litigation: Avoiding litigation & the law. Oxyzyme – delivering oxygen to wounds, oxygenated wound dressing. Iodyzyme – delivering iodine into wounds.
Geoff Thompson – Independent Tissue Viability Nurse Consultant & Visiting Lecturer: University of Worcester
12.45 Exhibition and Lunch
PM Sessions
1.45 Topical negative pressure: Best practice in the community
Geoff Thompson - Independent Tissue Viability Nurse Consultant & Visiting Lecturer:
University of Worcester
2.25 Management of the diabetic foot - Best practice
Managing infection & ischaemia. The charcot foot. Dressings - the evidence. Off-loading. Foot health education-can we do it?
Alistair McInnes– Senior Lecturer, School of Health Professions, University of Brighton & Editor of the Diabetic Foot Journal
3.15 Exhibition and Afternoon Tea
3.45 Maggots in wound care
Identifying wounds suitable for maggot therapy. Rationale for use of maggots. Different methods of application of maggots. Ethical implications of applying the therapy.
Mary Jones MBE - Senior Clinical Research Nurse, Zoobiotic Ltd - seconded from BroMorgannwg NHS Trust
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