Best Practices in Wound Care in the LTACH Setting - …• Support surface that helps manage...
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Wound Care Best Practices in the LTACH Setting
Cindy L. Schiller, APN, DNP, WCC, DWC ID Care, Randolph, NJ
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Disclosures
• None
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objectives
• Identify 3 components of pressure injury risk assessment • Identify 3 components of pressure injury prevention • Identify 5 members of the interdisciplinary pressure injury
team
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What is a ltach?
• VDRF • Hemodialysis • Complex wounds • Multiple infections • Chronic critical illness
Acute Hospitalization Too ill for home/SNF/SAR LTACH
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What’s the big deal?
Summary of Ranges of pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence reported in selected peer-reviewed literature published between 2000 and 2012 (NPUAP/EPUAP/PPPIA, 2014)
Setting or Population Prevalence Rates Incidence & Facility-Acquired Rates
Acute Care 0-46% 0-12%
Critical Care 13.1-45.5% 3.3-53.4%
Aged Care 4.1-32.2% 1.9-59%
Pediatric Care 0.47-72.5% 0.25-27%
Operating Room Setting ------------ 5-53.4%
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What’s the big deal?
• Mortality increases • Costly- 11 billion per year in US (IHI, 2011) • Up to five-fold increase in LOS (Allman, 1999) • Litigation
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Goals
• Strive for excellence • Heal where possible, palliate where not • Align patient/family/provider goals for wound
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Consistency of Care
• Standardize effective practice • Do the right thing every time for every patient • Meticulous attention to care
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interdisciplinary
Quality
Wound Care
Nursing
PT OT SLP
Purchasing Patient
Family
Education Admin
Surgeon
MD NP PA
Nutrition
Pain Mgmt
CNA
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Risk Assessment
• Tool on admission and daily • Act accordingly • Nutritional status • Ability to turn/be turned • Moisture
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prevention
• Identify and mitigate risk for skin tears, MASD, etc. • Mind your lines! • Eliminate/manage causative factors of wounds • Manage urinary/fecal incontinence • Continence plans • Prophylactic dressings
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Skin care
• Dry skin thoroughly after cleansing • Apply moisturizers • Barriers • Support surface that helps manage moisture
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Minimize pressure
• Repositioning is vital • Standardized process to decide who gets support surface • Braden </=15 at our facility • Float heels • Contractures • Lift, don’t drag
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Support surfaces
• Consider microclimate • Repositioning still required • Few layers as possible under patient • Consider changing surface if wound deteriorates or fails to heal
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devices
• Implicated in up to 35% of pressure ulcers in the acute care setting (NPUAP, 2014)
• Inspect skin under devices every shift • Reposition devices if able • Watch folds (telemetry leads, catheters, etc.) • Do not use NPUAP Classification System for mucosal pressure
ulcers • Remove devices ASAP • Prophylactic dressings
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Manage pain
• May get patients to move more, eat better, etc.
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Debridement
• Surgical • Conservative sharp debridement • Enzymatic • Autolytic-Proteolytic enzymes and phagocytic cells • Larval therapy
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nutrition
• Malnourished patients twice as likely to break down (IHI, 2011) • Eval on admission and regular intervals • Fluid, calorie, supplement recommendations • Consider patient preferences regarding food and supplements • Open communication between wound care team and
nutritionist
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Antibiotics and culturing
• Ugly wounds not necessarily infected • Do not routinely culture • Proper culturing technique • Consider topical antiseptics/antimicrobial dsg
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education
• How to perform comprehensive skin assessment • Dark skin tones • Classification of wounds • Measuring wounds • Flap turning/care • Use of products
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Advanced therapies
• NPWT • Maggot therapy • Grafts/Flaps
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Photos??
• Excellent tool for education and monitoring of wound progress • Use standard technique
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references
• Hodde J, Allam R. (2007). Submucosa Wound Matrix for Chronic Wound Healing. Wounds. 19:157–63.
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (2011). How-to guide: prevent pressure ulcers. Available at www.ihi.org
• National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance (2014). Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guideline. Emily Haesler (Ed.). Cambridge Media: Osborne Park, Western Australia.
• Sen, C.K., Gordillo, G.M., Roy, S., Kirsner, R., Lambert, L., Hunt, T.K., Gottrup, F., Gurtner, G.C. & Longaker, M.T. (2009). Human skin wounds: a major and snowballing threat to public health and the economy. Wound Repair Regen. 17(6): 763-771.