Description

Handouts

Outline

Guidelines for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease.

• Pathophysiology of LEAD
• Best Practice Guidelines: Assessment
  • Pathophysiology
  • Diagnostic Assessment: Invasive & Non-Invasive
    • Arterial Duplex & Angiogram
    • TCOM & Bedside ABI
  • Clinical Exam
• Best Practice Guidelines: Treatment
  • Risk Stratification
  • Perfusion Strategies
  • Oxygen Strategies
  • Maintenance recommendations: Non-reconstructable
• HANDS-ON LAB:
  • Perform Sensory Deficit Testing
• HANDS-ON LAB:
  • Simulate Neuropathic Off-loading techniques

Guidelines for Lower Extremity Venous Disease.

• Pathophysiology of LEVD
• Best Practice Guidelines: Assessment
  • Pathophysiology
  • Lymphedema, Lipedema, Venous Insufficiency Edema
  • Clinical Exam
    • Lymphangitis, Stasis Dermatitis, Hemosiderin Staining
    • Atrophie Blanche, Lipodermatosclerosis, Vasculitis
• Best Practice Guidelines: Treatment
  • Perfusion Determination
  • Matching Compression to Perfusion
• HANDS-ON LAB:
  • Venous Insufficiency Leg & Ulcer Assessment
  • Determine Plan of Care

Guidelines for Lower Extremity Neurological Disease.

• Pathophysiology of LEND
• Best Practice Guidelines: Assessment
  • Labs, Nutrition
  • Skin, Edema, Malformations, Neurosensory
  • Tissue Perfusion: Diagnostics & Referrals
  • Classification Systems
• Best Practice Guidelines: Treatment
  • Off-loading Options: TCC, Half Shoe, Healing Sandals
  • Diagnosing Infection & Treatment
  • Wound Care & Adjunctive Therapies
  • Emerging Technology
  • Surgery
• HANDS-ON LAB:
  • Perform Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI)
• HANDS-ON LAB:
  • Neuropathic Foot Ulcer Assessment & Plan of Care
• HANDS-ON LAB:
  • Arterial Disease Leg & Ulcer Assessment
  • Determine Plan of Care

Faculty

Kim Saunders, MSN/ED, RN, CWON®, CFCN

WOC Consulting, LLC

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Kim is a registered nurse and a member of the CWON®. There are a variety of settings where she has worked, including acute care, hospice, home health and skilled nursing facilities. As a respected expert in her field, Kim evolved her practice to be able to more fully share her insights as co-owner of WOC. She consults with healthcare systems on a variety of challenges related to wound, ostomy, and incontinence. standardization of wound care formularies and pressure-relieving device selections, as well as a plethora of other processes to standardize and improve upon existing skin and wound care delivery are some of the special projects her knowledge has been sought for. Her experience in wound care is much more than shooting wounds. Expertise regarding the ability to incorporate cost-effective care and reimbursement considerations at the bedside is included.

Kim is a member of the Advanced Wound Care Society and the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. She has traveled the country to deliver training to healthcare professionals. Kim is the author of a book. The Wound Care Pocket Guide is a second edition. PESI, 2017:

Speaker disclosures.

Kim is employed by Pardee Home Health and WOC consulting. She is paid by PESI, Inc.

Kim Saunders has no relevant nonfinancial relationships.