2008 SAWC/WHS Attendee Registration

2006 Poster Abstracts

76 - Simple to complex: strategies for preventing and managing tube-related complications
Diane Bryant, MS, RN, CWOCN, Ilene Fleischer, MS, RN, CWOCN, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

77 - Limb preservation in a neuropathic diabetic with third degree scald burns to right foot
Alan Cantor, DPM, Donna Hangan, RN, Paul Scott, MD

78 - Detection and management to healing of 25-year-old venous leg ulceration in a 78-year-old female
Alan Cantor, DPM, Keith Burger, PA-C, Donna Hangan, NP, Paul Scott, MD

79 - Healing a 7-year-old leg ulcer in a 37-year-old immunosuppressed male host with HIV using VAC therapy* over STSG
Alan Cantor, DPM, Donna Hangan, NP, Paul Scott, MD

80 - Management of open leg fracture with bone infection in a diabetic with 2-year-old nonhealing wound using multimodal therapy
Alan Cantor, DPM, Donna Hangan, NP, Charles Ruotolo, MD, Thomas Davenport, MD, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY

81 - Re-engineering the infrastructure for wound management in acute care
Virginia Capasso, PhD, APRN, BC, T. Cantanno-Evans, J. Collins, V. Donahue, J. Empoliti, E. Cox, S. Gavaghan, C. Griffith, S. Haldeman, M. Jeffries, K. Fitzgerald, S. Kilroy, C. LaSala, A. Martin, M. O'Donnell, J. Pedro, M. Phipps, S. Stengrevics

82 - Silver polymeric membrane dressing for management of chronic left lateral and medial malleolus wounds/venous insufficiency
Judy Caras, CWOCN

83 - Antimicrobial advanced wound care dressing
G. Schultz, B. Liesenfeld, C. Batich, R. Carr, G. Olderman, Quick-Med Technologies, Gainesville, FL

84 - Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy* improves chronic wounds in combination with NPWT and as a stand along therapy
Nancy Cher, RN, MSA, CWOCN, Quyen Luu, MD

85 - Evaluation of hypochlorous acid* in the treatment of chronic venous leg ulcers
Joe B. Selkon, George W. Cherry, D Phil (Oxford), Jasmine M. Wilson, Margaret A. Hughes

86 - Intrarater and interrater reliability of the VISITRAK
Melody Clayton, PT, CWS, Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, TN

87 - Abstract withdrawn by author

88 - Abstract withdrawn by author

89 - Ideas for organizational policy changes to decrease incidence of pressure ulcers in an intensive care unit: understanding the role of on-going administrative support
Karen Cole, RN, CWOCN, Jennifer Shaver, RN, NM/ICU

90 - Development of a new nurse-led complex wound service to enhance patient care
Mark Collier, BA(Hons), Kathy Radley, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

91 - The role of the nurse consultant in tissue viability in the United Kingdom across health boundaries
Mark Collier, BA(Hons), United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

92 - Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy: lower extremity wounds respond to hyperbaric oxygen therapy
L. Corbett, C. Anderson, B. Magliato, M. Powers, C. Tray, A. Babigian, G. Perdrizet, Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and Dept. of Nephrology and Plastic Surgery at Hartford Hospital and the University of Connecticut Health Center, Hartford, CT, and Oxyheal Corp

93 - A clinical evaluation to show the benefits of the TIME framework in complex wound management
Rachael Corser, BS, RN, Jacqui Johnson, Milton Keynes General NHS Trust, UK

94 - Wounds forbidden: implementation project of the protocol of wound prevention and treatment in the city of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Elaine Costa, Maria Cristina Pimentel, Maria Eug'nia Candeloso Pereira, Soraia Rizzo, Ana Maria Amato Bergo

95 - Bilayered living skin equivalent use in recalcitrant colonized wound healing
Kara Couch, NP,CWS, Jaime Schwartz, MD

96 - Staff education tool: reaching beyond the walls
Suzanne Creehan, Susan Beavers, Jolie Blankenship, Katie Hudson, Ann King, Tina Lucas, Renee Seaman, Helen Zuelzer

97 - Estrogen and wound healing: case presentations on the addition of topical estrogen
Julie Cucco, RN, MSA, BSN, CWS, Mike Sellers, RN, BSN, CHRN, Neil Adelman, MD, National Healing Corporation, Shelby, MI

98 - The role of autologous blood-derived growth factors in limb threatening wounds
Julie Cucco, BSN, MSA, Leon Gervich, RN, MPH, Elena Shur, RN, Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

99 - The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) medicine facility accreditation: streamling the process
Julie Cucco, BSN, MSA, CWS, Stephen Rydzak, MD, Michael Sellers, RN, BSN, CHRN

100 - An evaluation of a sheet hydrogel* on the healing of leg ulcers using high frequency diagnostic ultrasound: a pilot study
Stephen R. Young, BSc, PhD, Meddexa Healthcare, Cambridge UK; Sylvie Hampton, Andy Kerr, TVCS Eastbourne, UK; Hugh Munro, First Water Ltd, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK