Date: 20-21 February 2025
Location: AIMS, New Delhi, India
Theme – International Best Practices
Event information:
Teaching management of wound and post op care for common plastic surgical conditions via a series of lectures and workshops
Target audience:
Nurses, junior doctors and allied healthcare professionals
Registration fees:
£50
1st International Wound Management Skills Course
Organisers:
Prof Ravi Mahajan, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Amandeep Hospital, Amritsar, India
Prof Maneesh Singhal, Head of the Plastic Surgery Department, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Prof Maniram Ragbir, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Newcastle, UK
Dr Reena Agarwal, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Leicester, UK
Programme
Day 1 - Thursday 20/02/2025
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Morning Session
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9.00 – 9.30 AM
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Registration
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9.30 – 9.45 AM
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Welcome and Introduction
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Prof. Maneesh Singhal
Prof. Mani Ragbir
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9.45 – 10.00 AM
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Pre – test
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RA / MS to sort
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10.00 – 10.15 AM
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Basics of wound healing
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Local Team
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10.15 – 10.30 AM
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Wound debridement – surgical / chemical / biological - principles
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Local Team
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10.30 – 11.15 AM
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Scope of Plastic Surgery Nursing in UK
Dressings – dry, colloid, Gels, honey etc
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Claire Porter
Teams
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11.15 – 12 noon
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Negative Pressure Wound Therapy – types (VAC, Veriflo, PICO) and application
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Claire Porter
Teams
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12.00 – 12.15PM
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Outreach services / Hospital at Home
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Dr Reena Agarwal
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12.15 – 12.45 PM
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Microsurgery – principles, monitoring, charts
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Prof Mani Ragbir
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12.45 – 13.00 PM
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Q & A
Group photo
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Lunch
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Afternoon Session
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14.00 – 17.00 PM
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Demonstration and hands on training
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Lead by RM, MS, MR, RA
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5 stations – candidates to rotate – 10-12 in each
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1. Common dressings including compressions
2. NPWT – need to liaise with industry to get a VAC machine
3. Pressure sore grading, Wound sharp debridement including pressure sore debridement
4. Simple suturing
5. Diabetic foot assessment
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Vac machine, dressings, instruments / sutures (3/0 prolene) etc
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High Tea
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Day 2 - Friday 21/02/2025
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Morning Session
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9.30 – 10.30 AM
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Hands, burns and plastics therapy team presentation – hand trauma & splinting, breast recon, burns including pressure garments, lower limb
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Laura Sharpe and therapy team
Recorded
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10.30 – 11.00 AM
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Role of prosthesis in plastic Surgery – hands, keloids, breast reconstruction – how to measure and make them, follow up etc
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Matt Pilley
Teams
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11.00 – 11.30 AM
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Role of 3D scanning & printing in plastic reconstructive surgery and burns
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Matt Pilley
Teams
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11.30 – 12.00 PM
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Rehabilitation / return to work / return to society
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Rosie Dear
Teams
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12.30 – 13.00 PM
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Q & A
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Lunch – 13.00 – 14.00 PM
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Afternoon Session
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14.00 – 14.15 PM
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Amputation stump management
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Local team
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14.15 – 14.30 PM
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Cleft care
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Newcastle
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14.30 – 15.00PM
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Scar Management – Non Surgical
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Rosie Dear
Teams
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15.00 – 15.30 PM
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Medical Tattooing
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Claire
Teams
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15.30 – 16.00 PM
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Medical camouflage
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Belinda
Teams
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16.00 – 16.15 PM
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Post course test
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RA / MS to sort
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16.15 – 16.30 PM
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Feedback – to do a proforma
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RA / MS to sort
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16.30 – 17.00 PM
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Certificates
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High Tea
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