Pressure Injuries: How Best to Treat Non-Preventable Pressure Injuries and What Is State of the Art?
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This webinar will be recorded live on November 25th, 2025 at 11:00AM CT. A recording of the webinar will be available within 24 hours of the live event.
Pressure injuries take a huge toll in pain and suffering and financial costs to the patients and healthcare systems. A pressure injury should ideally be closed/healed but palliation is sometimes the only possible pathway. In all cases, state of the art methods should be applied to treat or palliate the wound/patient. The speakers will present the challenges in treatment, and the methodologies, some rather new, that has become available for the treatment of pressure injuries, particularly in the area of wound bed preparation and supportive debridement of necrotic tissue and slough.
This webinar is brought to you by the Urgo Foundation
1. Understand the magnitude of challenge in the treatment of pressure injuries, the core reason why near 100000 lives are lost for the proximate cause being a pressure injury.
2. Discuss what the traditional methodologies have been to treat pressure injuries, that still occur inspite of much preventative efforts.
3. Discuss what are the core treatment problems that impede optimal treatment in various settings.
4. Discuss newer technologies that can be used to improve patient lives, particularly in the area of wound bed preparation, improvements to the reconstructive ladder, and debridement of slough and necrotic tissue.
Abigail E. Chaffin, MD, FACS, CWSP, MAPWCA
Professor and the Division Chief of Plastic Surgery
Tulane University
Dr. Abigail Chaffin is a Professor and the Division Chief of Plastic Surgery at Tulane University. She is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. She is the program director for the Tulane University/Ochsner Clinic Plastic Surgery Residency Program. She has practiced plastic surgery and wound medicine and wound reconstructive surgery for 17 years.
She is also the Medical Director of the MedCentris Wound Healing Institute at Metairie. She focuses her practice on wound medicine, complex surgical wound reconstructive surgery, and general plastic reconstructive surgery.
She has authored over 50 publications in plastic surgery and wound medicine, and she lectures nationally and internationally on these topics. She is a member of the Executive Board of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.
Kara Couch MS, CRNP, CWCN-AP, FAAWC
Director of Wound Care Services
George Washington University Hospital
Ms. Couch graduated with her Master of Science in Nursing (FNP) from Georgetown University in 2002. Currently, she works as the Director of Wound Care Services at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC. She is an Associate Research Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University. Her wound care interests include caring for persons with limb loss/limb differences, complex abdominal wounds and use of technology in wound healing.
Ms. Couch is the current Vice-Chair of the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders and the President of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC). Kara is a Fellow of the Association of the Advancement of Wound Care. She is an editorial board member of Wound Management and Prevention, Today’s Wound Clinic, Wound Masterclass and WoundSource 2023. Kara is the co-chair of the Wound Care Community for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She is a member of the Prophylactic Dressing Standards Initiative, a joint collaboration between the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel.
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