Description

With the increasing awareness of underlying conditions that promote wound chronicity, non-healing wounds continue to challenge clinicians. Finding effective, yet economical, treatments for these stalled, nonhealing wounds remains a priority. Expert speakers will share the latest clinical and scientific understandings of the role that complex wound bioburden plays in delayed healing, followed by real world experience with a new and innovative antimicrobial dressing clinically shown to facilitate progression of wounds toward healing. 

Learner Outcome:

• The causes and implications of wound chronicity, including biofilm.
• Importance of early and appropriate wound bed preparation and the science behind MORE THAN SILVER™ Technology.
• The choice of wound dressing matters – clinical impact of adding the AQUACEL™ Ag Advantage dressing with MORE THAN SILVER Technology to the wound treatment protocol.

Speaker(s):

• Philip Bowler, MPhil, BSc, FIBMS, VP for Science and Technology, ConvaTec
• Catherine T. Milne, APRN, MSN, ANP/ACNS-BC, CWOCN-AP, Advanced Practice Nurse, Connecticut Clinical Nursing Associates, LLC