Meeting Makes a Difference

When it comes to treating wounds and providing best in class care for patients with wounds, none can go it alone. And with the numerous and different medical professionals typically involved in the care of any one individual, unique perspectives come to the bedside to develop a comprehensive treatment plan. Best outcomes result from cross-professional collaboration.

This is one of the many reasons why the AAWC Summits are crucial to advancing wound care. Those attending find an emphasis on audience interaction during the educational sessions, in the exhibit halls, and at the breaks. Speaker presentations are interesting and professional, engaging with the audience, sharing their experiences, and inviting the audience to do the same.

Professionals in all segments and levels of wound care gather to think, to listen, to share, to learn. A recent AAWC Summit focused on care and treatment of pressure ulcers. There was increased attendance from the previous year, with feedback indicating nearly all respondents found the sessions met or exceeded their expectations. Participant evaluations referred to the meeting as “thought provoking”, “interactive”, “evidence-based”, “cutting edge”, “relevant” and “practical”.

Among the most well-received program elements was the newly included patient success stories. Several patients benefiting from wound care specialists shared the challenges and triumphs of their wound healing journeys. In this video, wound care patient Tom Barnard shares his experience with the complications of paraplegia and how the support of a caring wound care clinician and family helped him overcome the associated pressure ulcer challenges.

The AAWC plans four additional regional Summits for 2019: three comprehensive wound infection summits and one lower extremity summit. In addition, the AAWC has been invited to develop a specialty advanced wound care track at the global summit for Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics (C3), and others at DFCon 2019 and Desert Foot conferences focusing on wounds to the feet. You may view the full line up of AAWC Summits and Invited Tracks online.

There is no profession which benefits more than medicine from collaboration and sharing best practices and lessons learned. The AAWC Summits create professional forums for these exchanges. Participating is crucial to advancing wound care and advancing our collective roles in improved patient outcomes. February’s Pressure Ulcer Summit reached maximum enrollment and the upcoming summits are sure to fill quickly. Registration for the April Wound Infection Summit is now open. Make plans now to join us! Click here to register.

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