1. WOUND CARE: NUTS AND BOLTS
Kevin Broder, MD
Telemedicine & Wound Director, San Diego GWEP
Telehealth Director, Department of Surgery
Section of Plastic Surgery
VA Medical Center – San Diego, CA
December 4, 2016
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2. ADJUNCTS TO WOUND HEALING
• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
• Acellular and Cellular Based Wound Therapies
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6. NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY
• A 57-year-old paraplegic
woman
• Right hip trochanteric
Stage IV pressure ulcer
down to the level of
exposed bone
• I&D with flap
reconstruction
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11. • A 66-year-old male with T5 ASIA C paraplegia
• Stage 4 left ischial pressure ulcer
• Type 2 diabetes
• Active smoking
• Malnutrition
• Lives at home with attendant care
• Skin defect dimensions of 8x8 cm
• Wound depth 5 cm to the level of exposed bone
• Refused Flap Reconstruction
ACELLULAR-BASED THERAPY
24. • Placental Membranes
– Used for 100’s of years
– No painful donor site
– Stem cell recruitment
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Human amnion/chorion membrane
CELLULAR-BASED THERAPY
DEHYDRATED HUMAN AMNION/CHORION MEMBRANE
25. CELLULAR-BASED THERAPY
DEHYDRATED HUMAN AMNION/CHORION MEMBRANE
• A 63-year-old male
paraplegic with chronic
stage IV sacral and left
ischial pressure ulcers
• Underwent I&D with flap
reconstruction of sacral
ulcer
• While awaiting staged
reconstruction of ischial
wound, underwent
dHACM application
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