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Presenter: Bernadette
Virtual Lecture
45 Minutes
Agenda:
•Why do we do wound care??
•How wounds heal
•Common causes of impaired wound healing
•Scars
•Closing wounds
•Primary, delayed and secondary wound closure
•Wounds and bacteria
•Common wound dressings
•T-tubes, Penrose and Jackson Pratt Drains
This lecture was designed for first year PA students to facilitate a basic understanding of why wound care is necessary. This lecture can be incorporated into a surgery class or a course on Perioperative patients. There are handouts provided with this lecture as well, management of keloid scars, hypertrophic scars, suture types, suture selection and time to removal of sutures, choice of closure for minor wounds and wound management dressing guide.
Presenter: Bernadette
Live Lecture & Lab
2 Hour Lecture
1.5 Hour Debridement Lab
Agenda:
•Wound care basics / Wound Care as a speciality
•Defining wounds and ulcers
•The 4 stages of wound healing
•What PAs should do every time
•Types of wounds/ulcers (Burns, Skin tears, Venous leg ulcers, Arterial ulcers, Diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, surgical dehiscence, hematomas, serums and atypical wounds.
•Actual Case Presentation
•What Would YOU do cases?? (WWYD)
•Questions
•Lab review/discussion
This lab and lecture was designed for PA students to facilitate a basic understanding of wound care and what the PA should do when wounds present. After much discussion with many PA associates and educators there is a consensus that wound care is a much needed topic that is rarely touched upon in PA programs. The lecture is 2 hours and has cases that involve students engaging in the presentation. The lecture provides an introduction to wound care, what the speciality entails, working with hospital & provider partners, the integration of wound care into holistic patient care, and then specifics of diagnosis and treatment of wounds. Following the lecture is a Q&A session that can last 30 - 60 minutes in itself, depending on how engaging the students are. I prefer scheduling this initial part in the morning, then breaking for lunch. After lunch is the clinical workshop where the students will each receive personalized instruction while actually doing a hands-on “wound” debridement. I use oranges as the “patient,” as they provide a realistic experience of going through several layers of the skin and “non viable tissue” to get to the healthy “tissue.” Using a curette, each student will get a realistic feel for how to debride a wound without injury to “healthy subcutaneous tissue." The orange can be “debrided” several times, giving each student opportunities to hone their skills. I move throughout the lab area during the clinical workshop to provide input to each student as appropriate and answer questions. The workshop is expected to last 90 minutes, but could go longer if need be. My preference is to limit the workshop to 30 students or less to allow me to provide input; if there are more than 30 students wanting to attend, then we simply have two workshops, one after the other, 90 minutes apart, after the lunch break.
Delaware Valley University, DE, Virtual wound healing & complications
lecture, 09/2023