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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI)

Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI) was created to fill a need for wound care education that was not being met.
WCEI founding partners Nancy Morgan and Donna Sardina, both RNs with years of practice, identified many improperly treated wounds in their nursing careers. They discovered that there was a great need for wound care specialization, but a significant shortage of qualified wound care professionals. They also noticed a lack of available and accessible wound care education programs.
With their shared passion for healing, Nancy and Donna started a hands-on wound care consulting company. Finding they couldn’t be everywhere at once, and there was a limit to how many people the two of them could help, they decided that a better approach would be to provide wound care education in order to train as many health care professionals as possible. That’s how the Wound Care Education Institute – WCEI – was born.
Click here for Wound Care Certification Comparison document

via wcei.net

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Saturday, March 5, 2011

HITLab Projects : VR Pain Control (Virtual Reality, Distraction Techniques)

The University of Washington Harborview Burn Center, directed by Dr. Nicole Gibran, is a regional burn center. Patients with severe burns from 5 surrounding states are sent to Harborview for special care. Harborview has pioneered a number of advanced treatments (e.g., early skin grafting). As a result of advances here and elsewhere, the chances of surviving a bad burn, and quality of living for survivors has improved dramatically over the past 20 years.

Unfortunately, the amount of pain and suffering experienced by patients during wound care remains a worldwide problem for burn victims as well as a number of other patient populations.

When patients are resting (most of the time), opioids (morphine and morphine-related chemicals) are adequate for controlling their burn pain.

In sharp contrast, during wound care such as daily bandage changes, wound cleaning, staple removals etc., opioids are not enough, not even close. As shown in the figure on the right above, over 86% of the burn patients reported having severe to excruciating pain during wound care (shown in red), even when standard levels of opioids were used. The pain management techniques in use are not good enough. Patients are suffering, a fact particularly disturbing when the patients are children.

via hitl.washington.edu

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