Marcus Gitterle, M.D. to present research poster to Society of Advanced Wound Care

Marcus Gitterle, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of WoundCentrics. LLC, a national provider of wound care services based in New Braunfels, Texas, will be presenting a research poster at the Abstract & Poster Session at the SAWC Fall Conference in the Caesars Palace Conference Center, Las Vegas, NV, October 13-16.

The Poster will be presented at the Advanced Clinical Practice and Emerging Research session, Sunday, October 16th. The title of the poster is “Wound Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic, the new Reality.”

The focus of the poster will highlight the impact that Covid 19 had on clinical wound care.

· Understanding the effects of Covid-19 on the skin

· NPIAP guidance related to COVID-19 and unavoidable Pressure Injury

· Protecting the Proned Patient

· Maintaining continuity of wound care operations during a pandemic

“The COVID-19 pandemic presented the greatest challenges ever seen in terms of delivery of wound care, in both outpatient and inpatient settings,” said Dr. Marcus Gitterle, CMO for WoundCentrics. “Wound care teams encountered new skin lesions related to direct and indirect effects of the SARS-Cov2 virus, along with shortages of skilled nurses and DME, and the exigencies of implementing a new set of prevention strategies specific to proned patients. I believe our specialty rose to the occasion, and this poster presentation is an effort to consolidate some of the pearls gleaned from a variety of wound care teams and systems, internationally,” stated Dr. Gitterle.

The poster session presentations at the SAWC Fall Conference were selected from over 250 submissions, and a panel of thirty wound care experts. chose this poster for presentation. The intent is that Poster presentations will provide up to date, innovative information that will aid wound care clinicians.

WoundCentrics is an integrated wound care solutions provider, delivering advanced wound care in acute care inpatient and outpatient settings, and post-acute facilities including Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH), skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and the inpatient rehabilitation hospitals (IRF). WoundCentrics hires and trains wound care providers, nurses and other clinicians on advanced wound care.