Wound care is critical in General Surgery and Trauma
What you will learn
Know how to identify the type of wound
Describe the healing process of wounds
Differentiate between primary and secondary healing
Classify wounds
What causes an acute wound to convert into a chronic wound?
Classify chronic wounds
Describe wound management under the model we addressed in the lecture
List the best investigations and treatment modalities based on what bacteria has infected the wound
What are the causes of poor wound healing?
List the 7 wound dressings
Describe maggot therapy
Briefly classify war wounds
How do we control oedema of wounds?
When do we amputate?
Description
Our Wound Care course is a critical topic within Emergency Medicine and General Surgery. Understanding all concepts present in this course will benefit you in your clinical and theoretical examinations.
In this course, we extensively cover wound healing, classification, acute vs chronic wounds, chronic wound management, wound debridement, management of wounds according to bacteria strains, poor wound dressing causes, wound dressings, controlling oedema, when to amputate and war wounds. Please do not focus on memorising the lectures. Rather focus on understanding key concepts. All lectures can be downloaded. Please adapt lectures according to your study style, I.e. if you wish to make summaries from the provided lectures, then please do so.
This course is ideal for all age groups and any person who is interested in expanding their knowledge of Wound Care. This course is not solely limited to medical students and health care workers.
After reviewing all the lectures, please test yourself using the video quiz. Please pause the video after each question is phrased and work out the answer. I go through every answer explaining why each is incorrect and why the answer chosen is correct.
If after completing the quiz, you are still unsure about certain topics, please revise using the lectures. You have life-time access to all lectures. Good luck and I hope you enjoy this course on Wound Care.
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