PRE-CONFERENCE 4

💡 Key Learning Outcomes:

✅ Master essential wound care techniques in mass casualty and austere environments

✅ Learn wound assessment & classification for effective management

✅ Apply suturing, stapling, and alternative wound closure techniques

✅ Understand infection control, antibiotic stewardship, and wound healing physiology

✅ Develop decision-making skills for surgical vs. conservative wound management

Wound Care Management in Emergency Settings

Wound care in disaster and emergency settings presents unique challenges, including limited resources, infection control, and the need for rapid decision-making. This hands-on workshop will equip participants with the essential skills to manage traumatic wounds, burns, and complex injuries in pre-hospital, disaster, and emergency medicine settings.

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Introduction to Wound Care in Disaster and Emergency Settings

Module 1: Establishing a Wound Care Unit in Disaster

🔹 Fundamentals of setting up mobile wound care stations

🔹 Infection control, patient flow, and resource planning

🔹 Role delegation & minimal-equipment layout design.

🛠 Hands-on component: Mock layout of wound care zone in a field setting

Module 2: Disaster-Related Wound Assessment, Triage & Decision-Making

🔹 Principles of wound triage during mass casualty incidents

🔹 Recognizing life- and limb-threatening injuries

🔹 Decision-making: When to close, dress, debride, or refer

🛠 Hands-on Practical Training: Triage cards & wound image

Module 3: Practical Wound Management in Primary Care Setting

🔹 Types of wounds commonly seen in resource-limited clinics

🔹 Wound cleaning, dressing selection & monitoring

🛠 Hands-on Practical Training: Modern vs. low-cost dressing techniques

Module 4: Wound Closure Techniques in Austere Settings

🔹 Suturing basics (interrupted, mattress, subcuticular)

🔹 Use of skin staplers, adhesive strips, and glue

🔹 Improvised closure (e.g., paper tape, cable ties, cloth strips)

🛠 Case Discussion & Scenario-Based Learning: Suture pads, staplers, glue, and improvised tools

Module 5: Advanced Woundcare Solutions for VSD Technology

Trauma: Open Fracture Wound Management, especially for Gustilo Type III open fractures, where wounds cannot be primarily closed after debridement.
Burns: Third-degree burn wounds following the removal of eschar and necrotic tissue.
Skin Grafting/Flap: Preoperative wound bed preparation in grafting area.
Chronic Wounds: Diabetic foot wounds (after debridement, with controlled blood glucose, restored blood supply, and controlled infection)
Abdominal Wounds: VSD for temporary abdominal closure in cases of severe trauma, infection, liver transplantation, or elevated intra-abdominal pressure in abdominal compartment syndrome

🛠 Case Discussion & Scenario-Based Learning: Build a wound kit using only items from a basic backpack

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