Management of wounds post surgery
Course Overview
Surgical infected wounds are a anyone worst nightmare, patient’s recovery is affected by weeks or months of dressings and antibiotics, impacting in their quality of life. For clinicians is delay in discharge, increase length of stay and even in the worst cases further surgery with debridement or major plastic surgery.
Most centres reduce the risk of infection with minimally invasive techniques, prophylaxis antibiotics and other products prior surgery but in some cases due to the complex risk factors of patients some will develop a wound infection.
We will discuss treatments with topical active dressing versus more aggressive initial debridement, common pathological organisms and potential treatment and when is best to contact plastic surgery advice.
Course Programme
| 18:00 | Welcome and Introductions |
| 18:05 | Risk factors and current insights from the enhanced recovery after surgery program |
| 18:20 | The surgeon’s perspective, science and daily practice |
| 18:35 | Preventative negative pressure therapy and wound complicaties, lessons learned in general surgery |
| 18:50 | Post surgery interventions to reduce infection and improve early detection in infections |
| 19:05 | Management of complex wound complications after cardiothoracic surgery, insights from a reconstructive surgeon |
| 19:20 | Panel discussion and Q&A |
| 20:00 | Close |
