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Educational sessions covered a variety of topics, including challenges in wound measurement, current guidelines for managing different wound types, the latest in burn care, clinical lab assessment values, legal issues, palliative care, wound bed preparation, bariatric surgery, lymphedema, skin substitutes and gene therapy, and inflammatory versus atypical ulcers. The lectures addressed basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of wound care to accommodate both the novice and seasoned practitioner.
As it has for the past few years, the Clinical Symposium kicked off with a moving presentation from a celebrity guest speaker. This year's speaker was hijacking survivor Jackie Pflug, who detailed her journey to recovery after a gunshot injury to the brain in her lecture “The Courage to Succeed.” Read more about her story in “I Knew I Was Going to Be OK.
