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Let's take a look at some
alternative wound therapies
that you may run into in
your clinical practice.
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So we're talking
about therapies,
what therapies can be used for
extensive or hard to heal wounds?
So here's a few that we
are going to discuss today.
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So if you take a
look at this image,
we're going to talk
about each one of these.
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All look a little bit
minimal, too invasive here.
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But these are common treatments
that's going to be used
for your patient's plan of care.
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So let's take a look at this
first type of treatment here.
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This is called
vacuum-assisted wound care.
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Many times you're going to see
this in your clinical setting.
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And we call this typically
a wound vac, for example.
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So here's why we do it,
there is a vacuum component
or a suction component
to this treatment.
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Now want you to take a
look at this image here.
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If you see here at the bottom,
this dressing foam, the black piece,
this is kind of an odd concept,
but it truly is like a black dense foam.
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We're going to take this and cut
this to the size of the wound
and will set inside the wound.
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So this will set in here
kind of like a filter,
it'll help pull extra
fluid through it.
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And that's going to
go to the pump itself.
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So we put the dressing
foam in the wound,
then we're going to seal
it with like a thin,
clear adhesive dressing
called the film seal.
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And all of that will attach
to the vacuum pump itself.
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Just know on the pump, there's various
settings that the wound care doctor
or the physician may
order for your patient.
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So the vacuum pump is
going to provide a suction
and help pull all extra fluid.
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And that's going to go through the
pump into a collection canister.
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So let's talk about all the
advantages of this wound vac.
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So we kind of talked about
this that it gently pulls fluid
from the wound over time.
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By doing this, it's going to
help remove any extra debris,
it also help remove swelling, and that's
going to promote healing for our patients.
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Now the really important
point of this wound vac
is many times we want
good healthy blood
which is oxygen rich going to
those tissues so we can heal.
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So this can help perfusion
of the tissue itself.
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It's also due to the section
going to help close that wound
and pull in those wound edges.
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And again, it may help stimulate the growth
of new tissue to help that wound close.
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So let's take a look at some
of these live images here.
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You can see that that dressing
foam can be of various sizes.
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It's also going to just depend
on how big big that wound is.
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You can see here on one side of the
screen how long that dressing foam can be.
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Or the other side of the
screen, it looks much smaller.
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But that wound is actually
probably very deep.
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So also when you look at the screen
here, you can see there's that film,
there's also the suction device that
goes on top and leads to the pump.
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So these are some great examples of
wound vacs or vacuum-assisted wound care.
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Now let's take a look at this
piece of equipment, right?
This looks pretty cumbersome like
a teleportation device, maybe.
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But this is actually a
special chamber that they use.
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It's going to help increase oxygen to
those tissues to help wounds heal faster.
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Now this is going to be
for very complex wounds,
this is not going to be for
your everyday wound treatment.
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So this is going to be used for
really bad gangrenous wounds,
diabetic ulcers, really difficult
to treat wounds and some infections.
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So there's a lot of caveats
to hyperbaric wound treatment.
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The patient's got to be
screened appropriately,
set up a plan of care for this and monitor
really closely by a physician and a team.
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And lastly,
these look much less invasive
than some of the other treatments
that we've just talked about.
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So these are compression
stockings or bandages.
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So sometimes compression
stockings can come
either thigh high or knee high or
sometimes we'll even use wraps.
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So the reason why
these are so important,
you get compression
from these devices.
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They're going to help improve
circulation, improve your wound healing.
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And these for patients with
venous disease and venous wounds.
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By using these compressions,
it's going to reduce swelling
and promote better circulation.
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Thanks for watching.