360° of Healing Webinar Series
This webinar series will focus on key topics within the wound care industry and allow insight from experts in their field. Included are the seminar topics, explanations, dates and registration.
Keeping current in wound care concepts can be difficult but is extremely important in today's technology driven treatment environment.
KCI's Professional Education department is proud to offer six unique one hour webinars in 2010 through the 360 Degrees of Healing Webinar Series.
This series will focus on key topics within the wound care industry and allow insight from experts in their field. Below are the seminar topics, explanations and dates. Speak to your local KCI Representative for more information or register online.
Series Events
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Meeting 2009 Pressure Ulcer Classification & Treatment Guidelines
- Date:
- April 29th 2:00 - 3:00 P.M. EST
- Speaker:
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Dot Weir RN, CWON, CWS
Dot Weir is a highly respected nurse and educator who is board certified as a wound specialist by both the WOCN and the American Academy of Wound Management. Ms. Weir has extensive experience having dedicated over 26 years of her career with a focus on wound care in acute, home, and long-term care settings. She is listed as a founding board member of the Association of the Advancement of Wound Care having held the offices of both Treasurer and President. Currently Dot is wound care coordinator for in-patient and out-patient wound care services at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Florida.
Ms Weir has authored or co-authored four books on wound healing, a practical guide to the management of wounds, pressure ulcers, and chronic wound care. Her articles had been published in the Journal of WOCN, Disease Management Digest and Wounds. She is a popular and knowledgeable lecturer known for her passionate commitment to the highest standards of patient care and treatment.
- Topic Overview:
- This session will review:
- 2009 NPUAP classification system and nutrition guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and treatment
- Role of nutrition in wound healing and ways to optimize for compromised patients
- Practical solutions for preventing and treating pressure ulcers
- Role of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and the healing of pressure ulcers.
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Case Managing Wound Care Across the Continuum
- Date:
- May 27th 2 P.M. EST
- Speaker:
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Connie Sunderhaus RN‐BC, CCM
Connie Sunderhaus is Vice President of CXJ Corporation and managing consultant of the Health Care Group. Connie's past clinical experience includes case management, patient education, and home healthcare. She is the author of multiple articles published in case management and other national healthcare journals. The role of the case manager is the focus of her educational programs with in‐depth reviews on each topic as what is most important to the case manager and how case managers can utilize information in caring for their patients. She is a contributing writer for a national case management education company and serves on several national speakers' bureaus. Currently she is a regular author for Case in Point®, writing the patient primer page.
Connie is the 2009‐2010 Treasurer of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), an appointed member of the Public Policy Committee, a past officer, and represented the organization with the Joint Commission. Connie is a past president of the Chicago Chapter of CMSA, and an active member of various community organizations.
- Topic Overview:
- This session will review:
- Wound etiology
- Physiology of healing
- Additional factors affecting wound care outcomes
- Case management process for wound care
- Cost effective case management options for challenging wound types
- Industry support for case management of wounds
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Integrating Limb Salvage into Practice Guidelines and Care Protocols
- Date:
- June 24, 2010 2 P.M. EST
- Speakers:
- Dr. Charles Andersen MD, FACS, FAPWCA and Dr. Vickie Driver DPM
Dr Charles Andersen graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Utah State University and received his Medical Doctorate degree from the University of Utah. He completed a General Surgery residency and a fellowship in Peripheral Vascular Surgery. He is board certified in Surgery.
Dr Andersen was commissioned in the US Army after completing his residency and was the Vascular and Surgical Consultant for the Surgeon General for several years. He established the Vascular Surgery Service and the Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, and a multidisciplinary Foot at Risk Clinic in Madigan Army Medical Center. Currently, Dr. Andersen is the Medical Director of Wound Care at Madigan Army Medical Clinic and the Chief of Vascular/Endovascular and Limb Preservation Service at Madigan Army Medical Center.
Dr. Andersen has presented in the US, Japan, Korea, Philippines, France and Italy. He has published articles and research outcomes in prestigious journals such as the American Journal of Surgery, Journal of Vascular Surgery, Annals of Surgery, and the Journal of Ankle and Foot Surgery to name just a few. Dr. Anderson has been the principal or associate investigator for over 100 research studies. Two of his studies were, "A Randomized, Controlled, Multicenter Trial of V.A.C.® Therapy in the Treatment and Blinded Evaluation of Abdominal Wounds, A Randomized, Controlled, Multicenter Trial of V.A.C.® Therapy with Split-Thickness Skin Grafting in the Treatment and Blinded Evaluation of Venous Stasis Ulcers".
Dr. Driver received her Doctorate of Podiatric Medicine and a Master's degree in Medical Education from California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco and is a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. Her research specialties are in the areas of diabetic foot ulcers, limb preservation and wound care. She has been the principal investigator in many research studies, published numerous articles and presented abstracts, posters and lectures both nationally and internationally. In addition she has received numerous awards for her business and community endeavors in the San Francisco Bay area.
Dr. Driver is currently the Director, Clinical Research Foot Care, Endovascular and Vascular Services, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director, Research Fellowship and International Scholars Program at the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston University Medical Center.
- Topic Overview:
- This session will review:
- Current statistics and prevalence of diabetes and associated amputations in America
- Effects of diabetes and factors leading to amputation
- Important factors in building a Limb Preservation Program
- Recent limb preservation research
- The role of Negative pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in limb preservation
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Assessing and Preventing Wound Complications
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- Date:
- July 29th 2 P.M. EST
- Speaker:
- Susan Mendez Eastman RN, CWCN
Susan Mendez-Eastman is a Certified Wound Care Nurse at the Nebraska Medical Center and a Research Nurse Assistant at the University of Nebraska College of Nursing in Omaha, Nebraska. She is a Certified Wound Care Nurse and Plastic Surgical Nurse.
Susan is definitely an outstanding and prolific writer. She has published approximately 40 wound care articles in RN, Plastic Surgical Nursing, Advanced Skin Wound Care, and Ostomy Wound Management journals to name a few. She has participated in many chronic wound studies as a Research Assistant and is a well known national and international speaker on Wound Care. She has presented at least 70 times in the US, Canada and Australia in the past couple of years. In her spare time, Susan reviews manuscripts for potential publication in the American Journal of Nursing, and she is a Master Panel Reviewer for the NCLEX Nursing exams.
- Topic Overview:
- This session will review:
- How wounds heal
- Barriers to wound healing
- Which medications may impede wound healing?
- When is compression therapy needed?
- Potential complications associated with wound healing:
- Infection
- Hemorrhage
- Dehiscence
- Fistula
- A variety of wound care products will be explored including Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)
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Wound Assessment & Coverage Criteria Documentation Pitfalls
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- Date:
- August 19th 2 P.M. EST
- Speaker:
- Nancy Morgan RN, BSN, MBA, WOCN, CWCN, WCC
Co-Founder and Owner of Wound Care Education Institute
Nancy combines her expertise as a Certified Wound Care Nurse, along with her extensive background in wound care education and wound management program development. Nancy is a nursing entrepreneur, who is an experienced and recognized international presenter. Her fun motivational teaching style has inspired health care professionals across the nation.
- Topic Overview:
- This session will review:
- The evolving role of documentation standards from tracking to litigation and reimbursement
- Appropriate wound assessment techniques
- Accurate and consistent documentation
- Industry initiatives to assist in wound assessment and reimbursement
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Optimizing Wound Healing with Debridement and Advanced Therapies
- Date:
- September 23rd 2 P.M. EST
- Speaker:
- Melissa K. Johnson BS PT CWS:
Melissa has been a physical therapist over 11 years. She is board certified by the American Academy of Wound Management since 2004 as a wound care specialist. She has worked in multiple settings including acute, long term care, home, and outpatient treating patients with a focus on wound care.
She is presently a member of the American Physical Therapy Association where she is Vice President of the Wound Management Special Interest Group for the Clinical Electrophysiology Section.
Presently she is the clinical manager of the Piedmont Fayette Wound Care Center and Inpatient Wound Services at Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville Georgia, which she assisted in coordinating and developing a multidisciplinary wound care center in 2006.
She has been a coordinator and presenter of education series for the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections and Annual Conference Meetings including presentations on pressure ulcers and the diabetic foot.
- Topic Overview:
- This session will review:
- The role of the physical therapists in managing wound care patients
- Advances in skin and wound care
- The role of debridement prior to application of advance wound care therapies