ISS: Closing the Gap in Dressing Selection in the Acute Care Setting

Supported by an educational grant from Coloplast Corp.

Learning Objectives:
• Examine challenges in acute wound care management related to reliance on wound fillers, including care complexity, delays in specialty wound consultation and treatment initiation, risks of improper filling, and increased nursing time and resource use.
• Explain the importance of wound dressing selection in the acute care setting, emphasizing dressing conformity to the wound bed, effective exudate management, and maintenance of a moist healing environment.
• Assess how the clinical features of a novel silicone foam dressing, including lift-and-reapply capability, can improve care efficiency, standardization, and continuity of wound assessment in the acute care setting.
• Navigate illustrative case studies utilizing a novel silicone dressing for the management of a variety of wounds with depth in the acute care setting