SÅR1101 General principals in treatment of non-healing wounds

Contents and structure

This course is divided into two themes,

• the physiological and pathophysiological basis of wound treatment
• wounds that won't heal, general principals of treatment

The course looks at how the body reacts to trauma, how healing takes place and which conditions that govern the healing of wounds. Furthermore, the course examines the mechanisms that come into force when normal wound healing does not occur, and alternative strategies for dealing with it.

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

• have comprehensive knowledge about the construction of the skin and its funcion in relation to wound development and wound healing
• have comprehensive knowledge about normal healing in skin and tissue, including the role of oxygen
• have comprehensive knowledge about circulatory diseases as the basis for the development of wounds
• have comprehensive knowledge about immunological and pathological mechanisms behind the development of wounds
• have comprehensive knowledge about the role of bacteria in the growth and maintenance of non-healing wounds
• have comprehensive knowledge about how diseases/treatment influence wound healing
• have comprehensive knowledge about wounds and economics
• have comprehensive knowledge about necrosis and development of devitalised tissue and methods for dealing with it
• have comprehensive knowledge about handling wound exudate
• have comprehensive knowledge about aids in wound treatment
• have comprehensive knowledge about how wounds influence the quality of life
• have comprehensive knowledge about wound treatment and documentation
• have comprehensive knowledge about nutrition and wound healing
• Have knowledge of the difference between wounds caused by systemic disease and traumatic/post-traumatic wounds

Skills:

• identifies which wounds indicating a normal and expected healing and which wounds demanding special attention and treatment
• identifies and eliminates conditions that inhibit healing
• chooses solutions that are both professionally justifiable and economically acceptable

General Competence:

• imparts independent work and masters the expressions from the subject area

Entry requirements

None

Recommended previous knowledge

None

Teaching methods

Lectures, literature studies, counselling, teamwork with written assignment.

This is a chiefly web-based part-time education with two themes, each commencing with an assembly of four days.

Compulsory learning activities

1 written assignment, max. 3000 words

Participate in discussion groups at Canvas with at least 6 contributions

75 % obligatory turnout for instruction, a maximum of two days absence

Assessment

Individual, written assignment, max. 300 words. Guidance is given over a three-week period

A-F

Examination support material

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Course reductions

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