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The College is offering
"Back to Basics: An Introduction to Wound Care" in partnership with Anne Arundel Community College located in beautiful Arnold, Maryland.
Back to Basics serves as an excellent one-day refresher course for professionals who feel they could use a tune-up in Basic Wound Care. This course is designed to provide healthcare practitioners with an overview of current wound healing practices and technologies. Participants will gain knowledge of clinically useful information that can be supplied in the management of patients with various wound types.
Please visit our calendar page for more details on registration information.>
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The Journal of the ACCWS
Become a Fellow of the College and receive your own subscription to
The Journal of The American College of Certified Wound Specialists.
The first all peer reviewed Wound Care Journal has made its premier.
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PAC Committee Press Announcement:
Senators Baucus and Grassley introduced Bill to Delay Medical
Equipments Bidding Program
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Laurie M. Rappl, PT, CWS
In this installment I will introduce you to Sihanouk
Hospital Center for HOPE, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Fellows: Read
the 2nd installment featuring global wound care experience>
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J. Neal Sharpe, MD, FACS
ACCWS 2008 Honorary Fellow
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ACCWS 2008 Chairman's Vision Award Recognizes:
Donald E. Mrdjenovich,
Congratulations to Donald E. Mrdjenovich
DPM, CWS, FACCWS. |
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Attention:
CWS and CWCA
Students
Visit our ACCWS
Endorsed Course Listings for Wound Care Prep-Courses and information. Visit> |
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For a patient with chronic lower extremity swelling from
venous insufficiency, the use of intermittent pneumatic compression
pump (IPC-pump)
- is indicated regardless of the patient's
ABI value
- is a first line treatment before pressure
gradient stockings
- is a one hour treatment that may be used
twice a day
- is used as an adjunct after vein stripping
- is used for ablation of the perforator vein
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