Join us at booth #1816 at the
2023 AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo
April 2-4, 2023
San Antonio, TX
Attend a CE session & complete our booth tour to qualify for a 2024 AORN registration grant
(2 Contact Hours)
Sponsored by Mölnlkycke® through the AORN Foundation.*
Mölnlycke will provide grants for the 2024 AORN Surgical Conference and Expo through the AORN Foundation. AORN members who participate in the Molnlycke booth activities and attend one of the Mölnlycke booth CE sessions will be eligible for the grant. Winners will be selected by the AORN Foundation and provided a grant form to complete and submit to the AORN Foundation in order to receive credit for the AORN 2024 conference registration.
Surgical Glove Changes for Improved Safety |
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| MONDAY April 3rd | TUESDAY April 4th |
| 10:00am - 10:30am 10:45am - 11:15am 1:45pm - 2:15pm 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
10:30am – 11:00am |
Program Summary
What Happens if Your Surgical Gloves are damaged during surgery?
- Pathogens and bioburden are transferred from the clinicians hands to the patient
- The patient is at an increased risk for Infection.
- The glove wearer is also at an increased risk for injury and infection.
Surgical wound Infections are a devastating complication and are of deep concern for surgical teams on a global platform. Changing surgical gloves is not new to current guidelines, however there is now an increased need for a new paradigm of safety for health care workers as well as their patient.
This program will take you on a journey into the balance between translating clinical evidence and implementing evidenced-based guidelines, of when and how surgical gloves should be changed during the surgical procedure, into practice. Minimizing intra-operative surgical glove contamination is a sound and recommended strategy for all surgical teams.
Learner Objectives
- Discuss literature that supports clinical evidence supporting new recommendations of when to change gloves during a surgical procedure.
- Describe how appropriate surgical glove changes has a place for a new paradigm of health-care worker safety.
- Translate evidence-based guidelines into double gloving practice changes for continued safety for both the healthcare worker and the patient.
- Assess the necessity to support surgical gloving changing practices.
Do HAPIs make you sad? Preventing Perioperative Pressure Injuries |
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| MONDAY April 3rd | TUESDAY April 4th |
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11:30pm – 12:00pm |
9:00am -9:30am |
Program Summary
Millions of surgeries are performed each year in the United States during which the patient is anesthetized, immobile, and cannot inform the surgical team of pain or discomfort at a pressure site, which may lead to a pressure injury. In the OR, the patient’s absolute immobility and anesthetized state during surgery creates a unique timeframe of very high risk.
Learner Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:
- Explain the appearance, incidence, & impact of surgery-related pressure injuries
- Discuss two peri-operative pressure injury risk assessment scales
- Identify effective interventions for preventing surgical-related pressure injuries
- Describe patient outcomes & cost savings associated with preventive intervention
Connect2Know®
Connect2know is Molnlycke® Health Care’s Education Resource Center accessed at www.connect2know.com. A wealth of resources on wound prevention, infection prevention, and pressure injury prevention, including CE courses, guides, expert webinars, current best practice references and tools are available. Additionally, Molnlycke® Health Care product education is available 24/7, to keep all of your staff current on how to use our products.
