APMA News - July/August 2021 - A4

My SAWC Virtual Wound Care Week Experience
Beth Reittinger, DPM
Practicing medicine in an everevolving,
technologically advanced
time can be quite the overwhelming
experience. Treatment options and
evidence-based medicine are
constantly changing. Learning the
tricks of the trade, especially as a
first-year resident in a rural practice
setting, can be a lot. Wound care is
no exception.
T
here are products on products on
products from endless companies,
and the treatment approaches
utilized vary not only from hospital to
hospital but provider to provider. For
these reasons, I am beyond grateful to
have had the opportunity to attend the
2021 Symposium on Advanced Wound
Care (SAWC). I had the wonderful
opportunity for in-depth learning about
various medical companies' products
and heard firsthand from multiple DPM,
MD, and DO providers on how, why, and
when they use the products they prefer.
I learned about multiple new therapies
I had never personally seen-some I
didn't know existed.
Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed the
lectures discussing optimization of
wound care patient nutrition, as I firmly
believe medical providers do not get
enough nutrition education. Although
many of us know what labs to obtain
to determine a patient's hydration or
nutritional status, what do we truly do
to optimize the patient after they leave
our office or are discharged from the
hospital? Wound care can be as simple
as you want or as complex as you can
possibly think; and the more each of
us knows, the better off our patients
will be and the faster their wounds
will heal.
I am so appreciative for the opportunity
to attend the SAWC 2021 Virtual
Wound Care Week and hope to be able
to attend in person in the years to come.
Thank you so much to APMA for
awarding me the 2021 SAWC Spring
Wound Care Podiatrist Scholarship! The
education I have been provided from
just one week will follow me through my
entire career and has motivated me to
eagerly continue to broaden my wound
care knowledge base.
Editor's note: Beth Reittinger, DPM,
was chosen as the recipient of the
Symposium on Advanced Wound
Care (SAWC) Spring Virtual 2021
Wound Care Podiatrist Scholarship,
which awarded complimentary
registration to the meeting.
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