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Wound management
WOUND THERAPY
Chronic and poorly healing wounds pose a major therapeutic challenge due to the underlying diseases, resulting in long healing processes and high recurrence rates. For those affected, this often means massive restrictions in quality of life and mobility, pain, social isolation and financial burden.
"Focusing exclusively on the *correct* wound dressing no longer does justice to today's understanding of wound nursing. The causes of wound development or wound healing disorders must first be determined by means of medical diagnostics. This is followed by adequate causal, concomitant and local wound therapy, taking into account the individual patient situation (ICW e. V. position paper)"
In order to optimize the nursing situation of those affected as well as the prevention and recurrence prophylaxis, the UMM Academy offers the training measure in the form of the Wound Expert ICW.
Wound experts are part of an interdisciplinary team that treats chronic wounds. The first step is the doctor's diagnosis, which determines the causes of the wound formation or wound healing disorder. In the further course of treatment, wound experts take over the nursinng of the wound, the wound documentation as well as the causal and accompanying therapy. Depending on their qualifications, they carry out the consultation and therapy independently, document their work and evaluate the success of the therapy.
The wound quality circle (4x/year) and various further training and recertification measures also offer the opportunity to update existing knowledge.
Wound consultation hours at the surgical clinic
UMM | Surgical Outpatient Clinic | House 2, Level 1, Room 180
In our special consultation hours, we treat patients with complicated or chronic wounds.
Problem wounds include
- venous leg ulcers (venous leg ulcer)
- arterial leg ulcers (ulcus cruris arteriosum)
- diabetic foot ulcers
- poorly healing surgical wounds (post-operative wound healing disorders)
Therapeutic services
In addition to the advisory function, we offer qualified wound management and local wound treatment by certified wound therapists on an inpatient and outpatient basis.
- Clarification of the cause of the wound
- Assessment of the wound
- Wound cleansing
- Optimization of wound nursing
- documentation
- Patient guidance
- Transfer to outpatient nursing, close cooperation with outpatient nursing providers
Special therapies
- Vacuum therapy
- Maggot therapy (inpatient only)
Interdisciplinary measures
- Initiation of further diagnostics, e.g. vascular investigations, dermatology
- Initiation of physiotherapeutic measures, compression therapy, pressure-relieving footwear
- Regular participation in studies
- Regular updates of listed wound therapy products in collaboration with the pharmacy
Wound nursing
Wound nursing is carried out in accordance with the guidelines of the German Society for Wound Healing and Wound Treatment (DGfW) and the standards of the Initiative Chronische Wunden e.V. (ICW).
Steffi Born
Specialist Wound Therapist ICW
Algesiology Specialist Assistant
Nursing Expert Compression MWAK
Hygiene Officer in Nursing
Deputy Director Wundnetz Kurpfalz e.V.
Contact us
Steffi Born
Surgical Clinic | Outpatient Clinic | Wound Therapy
University Medicine Mannheim
Theodor Kutzer Ufer 1-3
68167 Mannheim
+49 621 383 1536
steffi.born@umm.de
