Session outline
The session will be run by Dr Justine O’Hara, HOD Plastics, Concord Hospital, Sydney.
Dr O’Hara discusses wound management, from wound bed preparation pre-surgical-closure, temporising strategies in complex scenarios, utilising surgical intervention, and wound care therapies and dressings in a protocolised manner for complex diabetic foot burns, from a tertiary burns centre.
Learning outcomes
- Define available therapies for temporising complex wound scenarios.
- Describe a diabetic foot burns protocol, step-wise approach to quality improvement.
- Outline the plastic surgeon’s preference, when surgical intervention is not an option, or surgery has been delayed.
- Identify strategies to reduce return trips to theatre for ongoing wound management.
- Consider how Negative Pressure Wound Therapy has shifted outcomes from utilisation in the pre and post-surgical space.
Target audience
Clinicians involved in multi-disciplinary approaches to complex wound management.
Agenda
Chairperson: Anna Redenbach
| Presentation time | Presentation title | Speaker name / Moderator |
|---|---|---|
| 5-10 minutes | Chairperson introduction | Anna Redenbach |
| 1 hour | Planning and Persistence, with Pressure | Justine O’Hara, Australia |
| 20 minutes | Q&A | Justine O’Hara, Australia |
