Clinical Encounter Series:
Essentials for Practice Success
Innovations in Wound Management

Special, one-day programs on how to expand your practice by adding wound management as a special clinical service, and how to be reimbursed properly to increase your practice revenue. Designed by practicing podiatrists for practicing podiatrists, and presented by the American College of Foot & Ankle Orthopedics & Medicine (ACFAOM).

ACFAOM is pleased to offer you a full day - 8 CME contact hours - of absorbing and engaging information on latest developments on the care of patients with wounds. If you are a podiatrist who seeks to know the latest developments in wound management, this is the program for you.
Four outstanding faculty from within the profession will make the day pass quickly as they interact with each other and you, debating various approaches to the care of wounds and providing you with those critical and practical insights that ensure your patients will recover rapidly and successfully and you will receive full reimbursement. Bring your most difficult cases! Our goal is to help you practice better patient care and be paid for your time and expertise.


Morning Plenary Session

8:00 - 12:00 AM with one 30-minute break

Faculty will present three to four different cases that will address the topics listed below. Each case will be dealt comprehensively from the initial presentation through wound management including basic and advanced therapies. The session will conclude by addressing long-term continual management. The cases will be based on different types of wounds - diabetic, venous,  pressure and the “others”. All aspects of each case will be presented including coding and billing aspects.

Topics to be addressed include: Diabetic Update, Evaluation and Management of PAD/PVD, Management of Painful Neuropathy, Negative Pressure, Factors and Skin Equivalents, Deformed Diabetic Foot: Management Options, HBO, and Offloading: Temporary and Permanent.

Afternoon Breakout Sessions and Workshops

1:00 - 5:00 PM with one 30-minute break

Workshops and special focus sessions will be the order of the afternoon offering hands-on, direct contact with faculty and support staff. Areas of concentration will include: Coding and Billing, Hydro Debridement, Dressings, Skin Equivalents, Negative Pressure, Total Contact Casting, Compression Therapy, Diagnostic Technology.

All Attendees will receive a FREE Patient Education DVD on Wound Management  (a $299 value).

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