• Independent wound consultant.
• Director of Comp Consulting Limited, a skin and wound education company, United Kingdom.
• Research collaborator with the Experimental Medicine Research Group, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa.
• Currently, an elected committee member of the International Wound Infection Institute Committee (IWII) and was on the development team for the 2022 International Consensus Update: Wound Infection in clinical practice and is a member of the development team for the 2024 IWII Evidence of Wound Cleansing document.
• A panel group member of the development team for the 2025 International Pressure Injury guidelines: assessment and monitoring, and specific populations: dark skin tone groups.
• International peer review panel for Wound Healing Advances and Management collaborative (WHAM), Curtin University, Australia.
• Editorial board member of Wound Masterclass and the International Wound Journal.
• Past regional and national president and honorary member of the Society of Private Nurse Practitioners (SPNP), South Africa.
• Past honorary tutor Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
• Past African Director for the International Skin Tear Advisory Panel (ISTAP)
• Past Principal Lecturer and Coordinator of the Wound Certification Course for the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Trish Idensohn combines her clinical practice experience, academia, and research to enhance patient care by empowering healthcare practitioners to “be the change” to improve patient outcomes.

Her areas of interest include: “all things wounds” encompassing the array of wound types including, the prevention and management of skin integrity concerns,

• wound infection,
• skin tones,
• the prevention and management of chronic / hard-to-heal wounds, and
• overcoming the holistic challenges wound management and wound care present

Presentation at the Advances in wound care study day

Can we predict healing?

Abstract

Have you ever consulted at a patient’s bedside, assessing a chronic wound that hasn’t healed in over a year or more and thought, will this wound ever heal? Perhaps this is your first consultation with this patient, or maybe it’s not…Can you predict the wound healing? Where do you find the answer to this question? What is the answer? Is it evidenced based? Is there an answer?

Perhaps you are the practitioner who is discussing, and/or planning elective surgery with the patient. Can you predict the healing of the acute wound prior to surgery? Can you recognise the risks of delayed wound healing presurgery and do you have the solutions for addressing these risks?

In this provocative presentation, predictable wound healing and the predictive factors will be explored and discussed academically with a clinical practice approach.