2008 SAWC/WHS Attendee Registration

2006 Poster Abstracts

1 - A small pilot study to evaluate the effects of a silver-coated antimicrobial dressing* on the incidence of infection in total knee arthroplasty
Eric Abood, PA, Ira J. Guttentag, MD, FACS, Florida Medical Clinic, Tampa, FL

2 - Use of silver antimicrobial gel on nonhealing surgical wounds to closure
Salome Agbim, ND, CNS, APRN, BC, Kimberly J. Miner, ND, CNS, CWCN, FAPWCA, Wound Care Associates, Englewood, CO

3 - Comparing excimer laser-angioplasty, bypass surgery, PTA, and primary amputation in CLI and limb salvage: an economic outcome analysis
David E. Allie, MD, Chris J. Hebert, RT, RCIS, Craig M. Walker, MD

4 - Dermacyn*: a novel superoxidized water facilitates wound healing. Early experience in lower extremity wounds and limb salvage
David E. Allie, MD, Chris J. Hebert, RT, R-CIS, Mitchell D. Lirtzman, MD, Charles H. Wyatt, MD, V. Antoine Keller, MD, Adam A. Allie, MS, Craig M. Walker, MD

5 - Biocompatibility and antimicrobial properties of a silver polyurethane foam dressing designed for use with negative pressure wound therapy
Archel Ambosio, PhD, Devin Ginther

6 - Complex hypospadias repair: the use of adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Caesar Anderson, MD, Edward Myer, MD, George Perdrizet, MD, PhD, FACS, Fernando Ferrer, MD

7 - Transcutaneuos oximeter measurements: predicting outcomes in advanced wound healing
Brian Solomon, BSc, Caesar Anderson, MD, Lisa Corbet, APRN, CWOCN, CWS, John Montminy, DO, Bettina Magliato, RN, George Perdrizet, MD, PhD, FACS, CWS

8 - Getting a leg up—prevalence, comorbidities, treatment, and outcomes of leg and foot ulcers in an outpatient wound care clinic
Julie Anderson, PhD, RN, CCRC, Patricia Thompson, MS, RN, Susan Hunter, MSN, RN, Darlene Hanson, MS, RN, Diane Langemo, PhD, RN, Dan Rustvang, FNP, Rolf Paulson, MD.

9 - Time to 50% reduction in wound area as a significant predictor of complete wound closure in patients with partial diabetic foot amputations—results from a randomized controlled trial comparing vacuum assisted closure* to standard therapy (ST)
Jose Ayala, DPM, Valley Baptist Medical Center, Wound Center, Brownsville, TX; Wyatt Payne, MD, FACS, Bay Pines VA Medical Center, Bay Pines, FL; Michael S. Keith, PhD, PharmD, KCI USA, San Antonio, TX

10 - Difference in pain between atraumatic silicone dressings at removal from punch graft wounds
Baldur Baldursson, MD, PhD

11 - The CONTOP study: a large-scale, comparative, randomized study in patients treated with a sustained silver-releasing foam dressing
Munter KC, Beele H, Russell L, Basse PB, Groechenig E, Crespi A, Fraulin F, Rucigaj TP

12 - Safety and efficacy in long-term use of a sustained silver-releasing foam dressing: a randomized, controlled trial on venous leg ulcers
Ivins N, Harding KG, Price P, Wound Healing Research Unit, Cardiff Medicentre, Cardiff, UK; Jurgensen B, Lohmann M, Copenhagen Wound Healing Centre; Gottrup F, Andersen KE, Odense University Hospital; Bech-Thomsen N, Hudklinikken, Naestved, Denmark; Scanlon E, Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust, Leeds, UK; Roed-Petersen J, Gentofte County Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark; Kirsner R, Charles C, University of Miami, Miami, FL; Romanelli M, Mastronicola D, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Rheinen H, Schwenk-Davoine I, Universitats Hautklinik, Freiburg, Germany; Jemec G, Heidenheim M, Roskilde County Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark; Leaper D, North Tees General Hospital NHS, Stockton on Tees, UK; Neumann HAM, Munte K, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Veraart J, Ceulen R, Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands; Coerper S, Eberhard-Karls-Universitats, Germany; Sibbald G, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

13 - Antibacterial activity of silver-containing dressings
Dolmer M, Wound Care R&D, Coloplast A/S, Humlebaek, Denmark

14 - Magnetic resonance imaging safety and compatibility for three silver-containing wound dressings
Hanson LG, Soegaard LV, Sidaros K, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre; Dolmer M, Coloplast A/S, Wound Care SBU, Humlebaek, Denmark

15 - Quality improvement: reliable instructions that reduce the cost in delivering burn care
Lidia Garner, MSM, BSN, RN, CWCN, COCN

16 - Efficacy of a wound matrix*, PDGF gel**, and standard of care*** on healing of infected porcine full-thickness wounds
N. Barai, K. Lam, J. Cowart, K. Posadas, P. Attar, B. Shroot

17 - The use of polymeric membrane dressings for managment of a full-thickness/tunneling, dehisced surgical abdominal wound
Laura Barnes, RN, MSN, WOCN, CWCN, APN-CNS

18 - Polymeric membrane dressings for the use on a traumatic left knee wound
Laura Barnes, RN, MSN, WOCN, CWCN, APN-CNS

19 - Chronic nonhealing left medial ankle pressure wound and the use of polymeric membrane dressing
Laura Barnes, RN, MSN, WOCN, CWCN, APN-CNS

20 - Value analysis: how CWCNs changed clinical and finacial management of wounds in homecare
Christina Barrows, BSN, CWCN, Maura McQueeney, MPH, CNA, Elizabeth Lemiska, BSN, COWN, Middlesex Hospital Homecare, Middeltown, CT

21 - Utilization of bi-layered living skin construct to treat leg wound with exposed tendons secondary to necrotizing fasciitis
Desmond P. Bell, Jr., DPM, CWS, FCCWS, FAPWCA, First Coast Diabetic Foot & Wound Management Center, Jacksonville, FL

22 - Maintaining tunnel tissue viability with silver polymeric membrane dressings during osteomyelitis treatment
Linda Benskin, BSN

23 - Activation of a stalled traumatic finger wound with silver polymeric membrane dressings
Linda Benskin, BSN, Church of Christ Mission Clinic, Austin, TX

24 - Quick healing of deep foot ulcers in a patient with neuropathy using polymeric membrane dressings
Linda Benskin, RN, BSN, Ghana BSN, Church of Christ Mission Clinic, Austin, TX; Peter Bombande, Ghana BSN

25 - Dramatic pain relief through the use of polymeric membrane dressings on a deep axillary wound
Linda Benskin, BSN, Church of Christ Mission Clinic, Austin, TX