What is the Evidence for Hypochlorous Acid in the Treatment of Pressure Injury?

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.

Elizabeth Faust, known as Liz or Lizzie, is a Nurse Practitioner, Wound, Ostomy, and Continence specialist.  She graduated from Gwynedd Mercy University with her MSN in Adult Nurse Practitioner in 2009 and became a CWS, CWOCN, CWOCN-AP, and CSWS. She served for 13 years at Tower Health System in West Reading, PA, in a variety of roles, including inpatient CWOCN, system administrative lead for Wound Ostomy practices, and department head of inpatient wound care under plastic surgery at a 700+ Level 1 Trauma Center in Eastern Pennsylvania.  She previously served as a nurse practitioner in an outpatient wound care center using a physical therapy model. She is passionate about education, particularly with NPWT and Pressure injury prevention and management. She has lectured internationally and facilitated Bioskills labs across the country. She runs a consulting business, Lizzie Wounds, LLC, focusing on education, marketing, product development, legal case reviews, and research.  She also co-hosts an educational channel for wound care clinicians called The Frank & Lizzie Show.