At-risk skin—Are we doing what we think we are?
With the current challenges in caring for at-risk skin, caregivers are looking for reliable recommendations to help provide their best care. In this webinar, a panel of skin health experts from the Coalition for At-Risk Skin (CARS)—Dr. Diane Krasner, Melissa Morgan and Monica Progar—review the data and research, walk through their work and offer their recommendations, including a discussion of 21 new consensus statements on at-risk skin.
Pressure injuries
Pressure injury prevention: Current state and its implications
Presenter: Elizabeth Faust
Explore all aspects of pressure injuries, including their history, risk factors and proven prevention strategies.
The vicious cycle of pressure injuries
Presenter: Dr. Amit Gefen
PI development, links to COVID-19 and individualized prevention strategies.
Turning and repositioning
Presenter: Catherine T. Milne, Advanced Practice WOC nurse
Principles, practices, myths and effective strategies to following evidence-based best practices.
Building a PI prevention program
Presenter: Certified Wound Specialist Kara Couch
How to secure leadership support and ways to engage frontline staff to follow best practices.
Incontinence associated dermatitis
Presenter: Dr. Barbara Bates-Jensen
Causes and effects of IAD, distinguishing between IAD and pressure injuries, and prevention and treatment approaches.
Moisture-associated skin damage
ICD-10-CM codes for MASD
Presenter: Dr. Mikel Gray
Identifying ICD-10-CM codes specific to MASD and incorporating them into healthcare practices.
Peristomal skin irritation
Presenter: Dr. Joyce Pittman
Definition, etiology, diagnostic codes and prevention strategies for patients with ostomies.
Redesigning hydrogen peroxide
Presenter: Dr. Gregory Schultz
The clinical impact of encapsulated hydrogen peroxide and the benefits for skinfold management.
Intertriginous dermatitis
Presenter: Dr. Mikel Gray
Understanding the etiology of ITD, identifying at-risk patients and why reporting is so important.
Incontinence associated dermatitis
Presenter: Dr. Barbara Bates-Jensen
Causes and effects of IAD, distinguishing between IAD and pressure injuries, and prevention and treatment approaches.
Biofilm and chronic wounds
Winning the war on wounds
Presenter: Dr. Gregory Schultz
The difference between planktonic versus biofilm bacteria, what makes biofilm hard to kill and how to fight it.
Manage and treat chronic wounds
Presenter: Dr. Randall Wolcott
The effects of biofilm on wound healing and therapy treatment strategies.
Venous leg ulcers
Time for a compression evolution
Presenter: Suzie Ehmann
Compression science and its role in treating edema and optimizing wound healing.
Managing venous leg ulcers
Presenter: Dr. Terry Treadwell
VLU causes and effects, and how to solve common patient and caregiver challenges.
Compression: Why, when and how
Presenter: Dr. Terry Treadwell
Why compression is needed, when it’s needed and how to set up the right therapy plan for your patients.
Skin care
At-risk skin—Are we doing what we think we are?
Presenters: Dr. Diane Krasner, Melissa Morgan, Monica Progar
Coalition for At-Risk Skin (CARS) members discuss current challenges and their recommendations, including 21 new consensus statements.
Post-Acute Skin Health Boot Camps: Back to Basics series
Infection prevention: Best practices in dressing changes
Presenter: Monica Timko-Progar
Best practices in wound dressing changes and how to reduce the risk of infection.
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Assessment and documentation
Presenter: Dr. Diane Krasner
Wound care basics, including causative factors, tools for assessment and a how-to guide for documentation.
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Understanding the importance of PI staging
Presenter: Melissa Morgan
Wound and pressure injury staging using the Apple P.I.E. (pressure injury explanation) methodology.
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Topical dressing selection
Presenter: Joanne Labiak
Simplifying the subject of dressing selection.
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