SAWC Spring 2018 winning abstracts

Make sure you leave room in your SAWC/WHS schedule to attend the oral abstract sessions and to visit the Poster Exhibit. Below are the winners in these two categories, along with the Young Investigator winners. Their abstracts represent the scintillating research occurring in the field of wound care. Congratulations to the authors of all the accepted oral and poster abstracts!

(Oral abstract winner) Prediction of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Healing Upon Initial Visit Using Artificial Intelligence: A Preliminary Retrospective Study/Jeffrey Thatcher

(Poster winner) Assessment of Wound Characteristics in Long-term Care Settings/Ayoade Adeyemi

(Young Investigator) Oxidized Regenerated Cellulose (ORC)/Collagen/Silver-ORC Dressing and Compression Therapy Use in the Treatment of Chronic Venous Insufficiency Leg Ulcers/Karen Bock

(Young Investigator) The Utility of Porcine Xenograft for Wound Readiness to Accept a Definitive Split-thickness Skin Graft/Iram Naz

(Oral abstract winner) Open-Label Extension Phase of The Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcer Multicenter, Controlled, Randomized Clinical Trial Confirms Benefits Of Viable Cryopreserved Placental Membrane for Wound Closure and Reduction of Adverse Events/Lawrence Lavery

(Poster winner) Potent Angiogenic Activity of a Novel Regenerative Microvascular Tissue Product/Douglas Arm

(Young Investigator) Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Outcomes Analysis in Chronic Wounds/Vikram Mookerjee

(Poster winner) Initial Experience Using Negative Pressure Therapy for Closed Incisions Following Outpatient Wound Reconstruction/Michael Desvigne

(Young Investigator) Identification of a Pro-angiogenic Functional Role for FSP1 Positive Fibroblast Subtype in Wound Healing/Sarika Saraswati