Current state of Wound Care: Trends, Barriers, and Opportunities – Frank Aviles & Elizabeth Faust

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Wound Care is a complex and multifaceted specialty!  Regardless of the type, wounds are devasting for your patients and a never ending challenge for you!  Almost every day, new information, new products are introduced, and technology evolves.  It is not easy to keep up with it all.  Frank and Lizzie will launch the summit with an exciting session that will provide you with the latest evidence to help you keep up with it all and help your patients heal!  By sharing the best practices from many wound care providers, you do not need to “reinvent the wheel,” but instead can learn from the best and take away new strategies that you can implement immediately!

In this recording, Frank Aviles and Elizabeth Faust, the co-hosts of The Frank & Lizzie Show, will go over some of latest trends in wound care, talk about challenges of our specialty and highlight the amazing opportunities on the horizon!  We promise a fun and interactive session!

Speakers

Frank Aviles, PT, CWS®, FACCWS, CLT-LANA, ALM, AWCC, MAPWCA

Frank Aviles, PT, CWS®, FACCWS, CLT-LANA, ALM, AWCC, MAPWCA , is the wound care service line director at Natchitoches Regional Medical Center (NRMC) overseeing and assisting with wound care practices across the continuum of care. Frank’s career and passion for wound care began 30 years ago. His goal is to continue educating others and promoting wound care best practices. His love for his profession has led him to teach at the academic, national and international level. In addition to his duties, Frank is a wound care consultant for Louisiana Extended Care Hospital Natchitoches and LHC group, wound care/lymphedema instructor and advisor for the Academy of Lymphatic Studies, and an educator/lymphedema therapist/consultant for Cane River Therapy Services. Frank has been an American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) member since 1990, is a board certified wound specialist, a fellow of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists, a certified lymphedema therapist, advanced wound care certified, currently serves as the practice chair for the Special Interest Group section of the Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology and Wound Management Section of the APTA, is on the Why Wound Care Advisory Board for HMP Global, is on the editorial board for Today’s Wound Clinic, has published various articles, has published a chapter in various textbooks, writes a column for Today’s Wound Clinic – “Lets Be Frank”, poster presenter, is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC), serves on the AAWC educational steering committee, and co-chairs national wound care conferences.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Frank Aviles is owner of Cane River Therapy Services and has employment relationships with the Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia and the Natchitoches Regional Medical Center. He is a consultant with Kent imaging, Urgo, AOTI, and Molnlycke. Frank Aviles receives a speaking honorarium and is a consultant with Wound Vision, Abbot, Essity, Hartman Group, Renovoderm, and Kerecis. He is a consultant and stockholder with Eva Medtech. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Frank Aviles serves on the advisory board for Health.io, Urgo, and Eva Medtech. He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the Lighthouse Lymphedema Network; the Wound Source advisory board; the Save a Leg, Save a Life Foundation, the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists Education Committee, the board of directors of the American Professional Wound Care Association; Why Wound Care–Physical Therapy, HMP Global; and the Community Healthcare Education Network.
 
Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP®, MAPWCA
 
Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP®, MAPWCA, is a wound nurse practitioner for Tower Health System in eastern PA. She served as an in-patient wound, ostomy, and continence specialist for a 700+ bed Level I Trauma Center for nine years and now focuses on delivering care across a seven-hospital health system. She focuses on care of the perioperative, post-operative, cardiac and critical care patients, with an interest in nursing and physical education, NPWT, and pressure injury prevention. She has served as the vice president of the American Professional Wound Care Association (APWCA), a board member for the American Board of Wound Healing (ABWH) and is active within her local affiliate of the Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurses Society.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Elizabeth Faust is the founder of Lizzie Wounds, LLC. and is the co-host and owner of “The Frank & Lizzie Show” LLC. She is a consultant and receives a speaking honorarium from Solventum, Kerecis, Urgo Medical, vTail, Molnlycke, Bechtel Medical, Hovertech, Bruin Biometrics, Mediwound, Wound Perspectives, Owens & Minor. Elizabeth Faust was previously a consultant with Medline Industries. Elizabeth Faust receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Faust is the vice president of American Professional Wound Care Association and serves on the editorial board of Wound Management and Prevention. She is a member of the Wound, Ostomy, Continence Society and the World Council of Enterostomal Therapists.

Objectives

1. Determine two new innovations in wound care.
2. Analyze two challenges in wound care delivery.
3. Evaluate a process for evaluating new products.
4. Assess two hot topics in the wound care space.

Outline

• Current Situation
  • Number of chronic wounds continue to rise
  • Outcome needle is not moving in the right direction
  • Evidence based practice
  • Hot Topics
• Innovations in wound care
  • How technology may change the way we practice
  • Innovations
• • • Infrared Thermography
    • Fluorescence Imaging
    • Topical Oxygen
• • Evaluating New Products 
• Barriers to Evidenced Based Practice
  • Translating the evidence to practice
  • Factors that halt the progression of wounds
  • Normal overlapping healing cascade
  • Need for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Target Audience

• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants 
• Physical Therapy
• Physical Therapy Assistants
• Physicians
• Physicians Assistants
• Podiatrists

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