Wound Care In 2022

We're very excited with wound care going into the future with the world we've lived in for the past two years. As we can all imagine, we are super happy to be at this meeting, to be at SAWC and to be live and to see everybody, and to give fist pounds and elbow bumps and everything.

What we're really happy about is all the different technologies and the different things that we can use that are...

Despite COVID and despite what's been going on around us, companies have still been developing products. Companies have still been doing their R&D and their research. The show must go on. We know that the patients aren't miraculously getting better because there's COVID and they haven't been on their feet as much per se.

We know that things are, a lot of times, have shown us that they've gotten worse. We're coming out of the tunnel, so to speak, and there is some light. It is a good time for the future.

Some of the technologies that I'm looking at are ways to incorporate the patient into their plan of care. What we've noticed in the past is that if the patient doesn't feel they have ownership in their plan of care, they may not be fully on board.

You can discuss with them their sugars, and you can discuss with them how important it is to offload and to take care of themselves and to change the dressings properly, and to communicate when they're in trouble.

If they have some sort of ownership, we've noticed that this goes a long way. What I mean by that, is if you can help them get involved with the plan, whether it's a new product that they have to apply themselves, or whether it's a new type of technology where we're taking their blood or we're taking something from them.

It's going to help make us a graft, or it's going to help make us a plug of some sort, or it's going to help make us a product that came from them. Things like these natures are what we're looking at.

Once the patient is onboard and feels they have ownership, whether it's a new type of tissue, or whether it's a new type of promising gauze or dressing or even compression, anything that they feel they can have some sort of ownership, and they have control over, will help us all in the future.