The participants will be introduced to methods of proper wound description, discuss wound care products, navigate through the compression therapy/garments, review local and topical anesthesia and ways for effective hemostasis. The attendees will uncover different types of debridement’s and biopsies of wounds and lesions, and discuss incision/drainage of abscesses. Billing and coding associated with these procedures will also be reviewed.

Objectives:

• žDiscuss proper ways of wound description
• žNavigate through wound care products and compression garments
• žIdentify critical elements of effective anesthesia and hemostasis
• žEffectively steer through different types of debridement
• žBiopsy lesions and drain abscesses

This course is free for ACOFP members and $50 for non-members. Interested in becoming an ACOFP member? Click here.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. ACOFP designates this program for a maximum number of 1.5 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

This program is sponsored by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Attendees participating in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.