Identify the key points of a care pathway in a person with an acute wound / chronic ulcer.
Know the physiological changes of the skin in the elderly, the hygiene and the skin care intact.
Learn how to evaluate a skin lesion and the techniques of measuring a lesion, know the main types of injury classifying / monitoring.
Understand the detergency goals, the detergency methods and techniques.
Understanding the reasons why devitalized tissues go or should not be removed, know the different types of debridement.
Understanding the goals of treatment with medications, the factors that influence the dressing choice.
Know the main classes of dressings according to the function and how to associate or not associate dressings.
Know complementary therapies such as negative pressure therapy.
Know the differences between infection and colonization.
Know the clinical signs and symptoms of infection in an acute wound and a chronic ulcer.
Know the management strategies of an infected ulcer.
Understand the factors that a lesion does not heal and how to handle a non healing ulcer.
Know the role of the exudate in the wounds and know how to factor the factors that affect production.
Know how to treat hyperthyroid lesions and know how to prevent and treat peripheral maceration.
Know the factors and strategies for preventing and / or treating pressure ulcers in various locations.
Know the Staging and Monitoring Instruments of Healing.
Know the mechanisms of formation of ulcers of the lower limbs of venous and arterial origin.
Know the technique of compression bandage.
Know the strategies for preventing diabetic foot ulcers.
Know how to assess and nursing diabetic foot ulcers with and without complications.
Know how to evaluate a burn, monitor evolution, and decide on treatment.

n-depth knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the main organs and apparatus.
Knowledge of the normal values of the main laboratory tests.

Treatment of skin lesions of different etiology:
Prevention and treatment of pressure injuries.
Skin care integrates into the elderly subject, in the ipomobile subject, and in the incontinent subject.
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) and the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) of 2014.
TIME and WOUND BED PREPARATION.
The lesion monitoring according to the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH) Tool.
Advanced dressings, general principles and dressing options.
Vascular ulcers, etiology, pathophysiology and clinical manifestations.
The ABI (Ankle brachial index) test.
Compression therapy, bandage technique.
The diabetic foot, definition.
Disease epidemiology and its complications.
Aetiology and risk factors for diabetic foot ulceration, neuropathy, vasculopathy, infection.
Characteristics of Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
The Wagner Classification (Wagner, 1981) and the Texsas University Classification (Lavery, 1996).
Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Limb Discharge.
Diabetic foot screening.
The education of the person with diabetic foot.
Treatment of lesions with the Topical Negative Pressure (TNP), indications and positioning.
Burns, definition, pathophysiology, evaluation, classification, antisepsis, local treatment.

There are no texts to purchase, during the seminar the teacher will suggest a series of texts and sites for personal study, such as:
Positioning Documents of the European Wound Management Association (EWMA).
WUWHS (World Union of Healing Societies) Consent Documents
Care and assistance to the patient with acute wounds and chronic ulcers, Claudia Caula and Alberto Apostoli, Ed. Maggioli.

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The world of difficult wounds, different etiology and different approach.
Taking care of a person at risk of developing injuries, preventing and caring for healthy skin.
Taking over a person who has already developed pressure injuries and tracking progress.
The TIME algorithm.
Principles of wound bed preparation, correct wound cleansing and choice of dressings based on the type of lesion and stage.
Description of the validated tools for evaluation and description of the lesion.
Presentation of clinical cases and discussion on proper management.
Differentiation of venous ulcers and arterial ulcers.
Difference in the choice of medication treatment and monitoring.
The importance of compressive bandage in the phlebopathic ulcers.
The therapeutic diagnostic pathway and the choice of treatments.
The diabetic foot as a complication of complications of diabetes.
The importance of a transversal pathway on the different levels of care for a punctual and correct taking charge.
Treatment of lesion and choice of diversified dressings according to lesion etiology.
Demolition treatments and conservative treatments.
Health education to the person
with diabetic foot.
Successes and failures in managing a diabetic foot.
Know about negative pressure therapy, how to activate it, and how.
Presentation of clinical cases and discussion.
Burns, the importance of first aid, taking care of different settings based on the estimate of the extent and depth of the burn.
New classification of burns, description of dressing treatment and follow up.

Frontal lectures with extensive use of student and teacher interaction and discussion of clinical cases.

At the end of the seminar will be provided the slides on the main topics discussed.

A test will be given at the end of the seminar to evaluate the effectiveness of the topics discussed.

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs)