This workshop is specifically designed for therapists involved in the evaluation and treatment of wounds to the extremities and torso. Learn current, clinically useful information for the assessment and treatment of acute and chronic wounds, including the use of appropriate dressings, documentation, and use of ultrasound to facilitate healing.

Unique presentation format is comprised of 3 separate programs. Select programs based on the skills you need to develop.

Ultrasound: Benefits for Wound Care (4 contact hours) provides update on research and overview for use of ultrasound in wound care.

Basics of Wound Care (12 contact hours) lays the groundwork for understanding wound healing.

Sharp Debridement (4 contact hours) is a hands-on skill building workshop with debridement lab. This course can be taken only in conjunction with Basics of Wound Care.

Completion of this workshop does not affect the participants' legal rights to apply modalities and/or perform sharp debridement. They are governed by state law.

Program subject to change. Participants are cautioned to apply new information and skills within the scope of state licensure law.

Course Objectives:

Ultrasound: Benefits for Wound Healing 4 contact hrs

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• understand how ultrasound can facilitate wound healing.
• determine when it is appropriate and inappropriate to apply ultrsound for wound healing
• determine the various frequencies, intensities, and length of treatment, and appropriate applications when using ultrasound for wound healing

Basics of Wound Care 12 contact hours

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• identify the physiological phases of wound healing and implications for treatment.
• use correct nomenclature to classify wounds by depth, tissue type and phase of healing.
• identify common factors and conditions that complicate wound healing.
• understand the role of nutrition in wound healing
• Perform a wound eval: evaluate, objectify, and appropriately document wound data, intervention, goals, and management.
• identify wound care products and dressings, effectively choose and appropriately apply products/dressings for a specific wound.
• understand and know when to use different types of debridement tools for wound healing

Sharp Debridement Lab 4 contact hrs

At the end of this course, participants will:

• develop the skills to perform sharp debridement initially with supervision and ultimately independently

Agenda

Friday Evening Registration begins at 4:00pm
4:30pm-6:00pm Ultrasound: A Basic Review (equipment standards,
thermal and mechanical effects)
6:00-6:30pm Break (light supper provided)
6:30-7:15pm Biological Effects: Thermal vs. Non-Thermal
7:15-8:15pm Ultrasound lab
8:15-9:00pm Recommendations/contraindications
Literature review and Questions

Basics of Wound Care  12 contact hours

DAY 1 Registration begins at 7:30am
8:00 –8:30am Introduction: Background; team approach
8:30– 9:30am Skin Considerations:
evaluating the dermis; positioning
9:30-10:15am Nutrition; Medications, Pharmaceuticals (including
topical enzymatic ointment, wound gels)
10:15-10:30am Break
10:30-10:45 am Hydration; activity
10:45am-
12:15pm
Dressing types: cover; permeable; alginate;
hydrogel; wet-to-dry (specific dressings in class)
12:15-1:00pm Lunch, on your own
1:00-3:00 pm Overview of Modalities: whirlpool; diathermy; e-stim;
laser; IR, UV
3:00-3:15pm Break
3:15-4:30pm Wound Care Model: protocol for electrical stimulation
4:30-5:00pm Documentation
5:00-5:30pm Questions

DAY 2 Registration begins at 7:30am
7:45-8:30am Wound staging
8:30-9:30am Wound Eval: setting goals and objectives
9:30-10:00am Debridement as a Tool: sharp/blunt; enzymatic, wet-todry;
whirlpool
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:15am Following up an Eval
11:15am-noon Review of literature; Questions

Sharp Debridement Lab 4 contact hours

Sunday Afternoon Registration at 12:45
1:00-1:45pm Sharp Debridement as a Tool
1:45-2:30pm Follow-up to eval
Types of debridement; decision points
2:30-3:00pm Sharp Debridement techniques and tools
3:00-3:15pm Break
3:15-5:00pm Sharp Debridement lab
5:00-5:15pm Practice Acts
Questions

CE Credits

• Ultrasound: Benefits for Wound Healing 4 contact hours
• Basics of Wound Care  12 contact hours
• Sharp Debridement Lab 4 contact hours

Certificate of attendance will be issued upon completion of workshop, and may be used for CEU verification of credits.

Sara Shapiro, MPH, PT  is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Graduate Program in PT at UCSF/SFSU, where she has been a faculty member since 1983. She is a graduate of SUNY at Buffalo, and holds an MPH from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has been practicing for 38 years, with certification in NDT and the Baby course.   

Sara has joined the Extendicare network at the Crestwood facility in Port Angeles, WA. She continues to be a frequent speaker at conferences, and to have an active caseload, integrating her knowledge of electrical stimulation and ultrasound for wound care, pain management, and rehabilitation of facial paralysis.

About the instructor and the workshop

The labs were great! There was plenty of time to really understand the information.

Sara is a wonderful teacher with good insight.

Sara is knowledgeable and energetic, well organized and provides a logical progression with her presentation.

Tuition

Dates & Locations

There are no scheduled workshops at this time.

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