Episode 5: What is Mepilex Border Flex?
Post-acute Clinical Chats
English - January 23, 2020 14:00 - 16 minutes - 11 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Business home health skilled nursing pressure injuries wound care skin tears post acute care pdgm chronic wounds Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Undisturbed wound healing cannot be achieved without products. Join this episode of Clinical Chats as Dr.Tod Brindle reviews performance capabilities with Mepilex Border Flex. Fewer dressings changes can have a benefit to wound care. What is Mepilex Border Flex? And, how can it change the way one delivers care for undisturbed healing?
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Speaker:
Dr. Tod Brindle is the United States Medical Director for Mölnlycke Healthcare. Tod’s doctoral research is focused on the etiology and prevention of pressure injuries in total artificial heart and ventricular assist device cardiac surgery patients. Prior to Mölnlycke , Tod’s clinical career included serving as the clinical lead of the wound care team at the Medical College of Virginia, VCU Medical Center in Richmond Virginia managing acute and chronic wounds in neonates and adults. He publishes, lectures and provides facility consultation internationally in his specialty area of complex abdominal wound and fistula management, ostomy care and pressure injury prevention in high risk populations.
Tod recently served on the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Commission Board, the Board of Directors for the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) and as the co-chair of the wound track for the WOCN National Conference Planning Committee.
He is the recipient of multiple awards for his clinical practice including the 2013 ANCC Magnet National Nurse of the Year for exemplary professional practice, the 2012 Magnet Consortium Award for the State of Virginia, the 2014 Alumni Transformer in Nursing and Healthcare as well as the 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award, both from Ohio State University.
Dr. Brindle received his bachelor’s degree in nursing from Ohio State University, an Enterostomal Therapy degree from the Cleveland Clinic, and his Master’s Degree and PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University.