Course Description:

This comprehensive course will cover wound healing phases, burn injury, wound bed characteristics to identify healing and non-healing traits, descriptors for documentation, the infection continuum, goals in wound healing, appropriate wound dressings and selection via an algorithmic approach, grafting and surgical approaches to closure, as well as an in-depth look at dressing options with a materials onsite to explore dressing types and characteristics. Cases will also be used to demonstrate key points and to problem solve best options for coverage.