In-house CPD for veterinary clinics. From first opinion companion animal, to exotics and equine, even referral practice. Our Bandaging Angels have all the skills, support and expertise you need to help you banish your bandaging demons and create a team of wound care wizards! 

WOUND MANAGEMENT - Small animal

If you or your team feel a little lost in the face of the latest wound management products, then this session is for you! There's not much we don't know about wound dressings with the support of experts in the field to help you get the best out of your dressing cupboard. 

Your in house Bandaging Angel CPD will cover: 
  • Physiology of wound healing
  • Phases of wound healing
  • 'Prepare, Promote and Protect' as a guide to management to include with discussion covering:
    • Wound lavage - choice of solution, clipping and skin preparation. 
    • Wound debridement methods - Sharp, mechanical, chemical, enzymatic and autolytic
    • Optimizing healing during the proliferative phase - to include factors that impede healing and benefits of moist wound management. 
    • Dressing selection, types and wear times for different phases of healing. 
    • Surgical versus open wound management 
    • Decision making according to phases of healing. 
    • Highlighting factors of healing delay and how to avoid them. 
  • Practice specific challenges and how to overcome them. 

BANDAGING TECHNIQUES - Small animal

Get your whole team on the same page with our 'Better, Safer, Kinder' programme designed to give you the latest science behind bandaging complications and to help apply them to your specific challenges.
 
Your in house Bandaging Angel CPD will cover: 
  • Principles and purpose of bandaging
  • Legal implications of bandaging injury - protecting your team
  • Types of bandage - assumptions and limitations
  • Layers of a bandage
  • Biomechanics and factors leading to bandaging complications
  • Limb, head, tail and tie overs. Top tips and practical application.
  • Improving client compliance and communication
Each session is designed to address your practice needs to either improve and refine your dressing selection or to fine tune your team approach to bandaging.  We love to help your team consolidate ideas and techniques and troubleshooting to overcome issues in confidence.  
Contact us if you would like to discuss any specific needs - [email protected]