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Burn Wound Cleansing and Solutions
Learn the best evidence-supported methods to cleanse and prepare a burn wound for healing
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Diane Merwarth
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Diane Merwarth

Diane is a physical therapist with more than 25 years of practice in the areas of wound management and burn care.

SRSHS
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SRSHS

SRSHS is a USAID-funded project aiming to improve and increase access to rehabilitation services in Ukraine and Tajikistan

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Introduction

Caring for a burn wound injury is complex and challenging. The wound care professional must provide effective infection prevention, oedema management, and individualised wound care to give a burn wound injury the best opportunity to heal. Wound cleansing is an important part of wound bed preparation. Unfortunately, there is not much evidence to support a particular type of wound cleansing for burn wounds. This course will discuss the best available research on burn wound cleansing solutions and cleansing recommendations.

Aims

This course aims to provide an overview of burn wound cleansing methods.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Videos
  2. Reading activity
  3. Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at rehabilitation professionals, students and assistants including but not limited to Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Rehabilitation Doctors, Rehabilitation Nurses, Prosthetists, Orthotists, Psychologists, Audiologists, Dietetics, Social Workers. Community Health Workers, Nurses or Medical Doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 1.5-2 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.
Types of Activities - Reading Physiopedia pages, journal articles, book chapters. Watching videos. Attempting quizzes. Participating in an international discussion forum.
Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1.4 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • identify at least three goals of burn wound cleansing and key factors to consider when setting these goals
  • discuss three hydrotherapy methods of burn wound cleansing
  • identify commonly used burn wound cleansing solutions
  • discuss four considerations that determine burn wound cleansing frequency
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