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SEMINAR: Surgical wound complications: improving prevention and outcomes

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Today's date is Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Surgical wound complications: improving prevention and outcomes : School of Human Sciences Seminar Series Other events...
Surgical wound complications such as dehiscence (SWD) are a significant issue that affect large numbers of patients and is almost certainly under-reported. The impact of SWD can be considerable: increased mortality, delayed hospital discharge, readmission, further surgery, delayed adjuvant treatment, suboptimal aesthetic outcome and impaired psychosocial wellbeing. Consequently, it is imperative to raise awareness of SWD and improve identification, prevention and management. Prevention of SWD comprises excellence in surgical practice, prevention of surgical site infection, reducing risk of healing impairment and use of interventional therapies such as single-use negative pressure wound therapy in appropriately identified high-risk patients. Management also involves a holistic approach that includes amelioration of impediments to healing, optimising conditions in the wound bed and using appropriate treatment modalities to ultimately close the wound. The need for international consensus on the core issues around SWD arose from the doctoral research of Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts. The process started with a meeting of an international group of surgical care experts in July 2017. Development of the subsequent consensus document included extensive review by the Core Expert Working Group and a Review Panel. This consensus document is aimed at clinicians in all care settings who work with patients with surgical incisions. The main objective of the document is to inspire clinicians to improve outcomes for patients by providing practical guidance on how to improve prevention and management of SWD.
Speaker(s) Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts, Senior Research Associate, St John of God Hospital, Midland
Location Seminar Room 1.81, School of Human Science, Anatomy Building
Contact Christine Page <[email protected]> : 6488 7126
URL http://events.uwa.edu.au/view/shs/default
Start Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:00
End Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:00
Submitted by Christine Page <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:30
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