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Zero Zone brings together the people at the forefront of burn and wound care for conversations about the future of tissue regeneration and SAMatrix™ (Synthetic Antimicrobial Technology). With Brad Wiggins,...
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Zero Zone brings together the people at the forefront of burn and wound care for conversations about the future of tissue regeneration and SAMatrix™ (Synthetic Antimicrobial Technology).
With Brad Wiggins, longtime burn unit nurse turned clinical educator, surgeons, trauma specialists, and wound care teams share how they're reducing complications and improving patient outcomes.
Hear discussion and analyses of real cases where SAMatrix™ Technology made the difference—what worked, what didn't, and how protocols are evolving to reduce opioids, get patients moving sooner, and how the burn care community is on a collective mission to achieve zero complications – together.
Learn more about Imbed Biosciences
Follow Imbed on Instagram @imbedbio and on LinkedIn
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With Brad Wiggins, longtime burn unit nurse turned clinical educator, surgeons, trauma specialists, and wound care teams share how they're reducing complications and improving patient outcomes.
Hear discussion and analyses of real cases where SAMatrix™ Technology made the difference—what worked, what didn't, and how protocols are evolving to reduce opioids, get patients moving sooner, and how the burn care community is on a collective mission to achieve zero complications – together.
Learn more about Imbed Biosciences
Follow Imbed on Instagram @imbedbio and on LinkedIn
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9 JUN 2026 · In small-town Vermont, the local hospital is the whole healthcare system for miles, and the doctor on call has to manage whatever walks through the door — teenagers mauled by family pets, farmers cut up by machinery, diabetic ulcers that haven’t progressed in months.
General surgeon Dr. Sarah Waterman joins host Brad Wiggins to walk through her use of Imbed Biosciences’ Synthetic Antimicrobial Matrix (SAMatrix™) products — Microlyte®, Surgaflex®, and Pelashield®, as well as SAMatrix™ with PainGuard® that incorporates lidocaine HCl to help manage pain — across trauma, post-surgical, and chronic wound care.
Through cases involving a teenager’s dog bite with an exposed bicep tendon, an angle grinder injury packed with denim and metal grit, and chronic wounds stalled for hundreds of days, Dr. Waterman describes how SAMatrix™ products have helped her reduce reliance on skin grafts, suppressive antibiotics, and opioids.
Hear what the first-in-human Microlyte® trial taught her about bioburden and epithelial creep, why she now reaches for Surgaflex® around hernia mesh and bowel anastomoses, and how lidocaine in PainGuard® has made dressing changes tolerable on highly sensitive sites like the ear.
GUESTS
Sarah Waterman, MD
Dr. Sarah Waterman is a general surgeon at Copley Hospital in Vermont, where her practice spans breast cancer, trauma, and wound care for a community that often can’t travel for advanced treatment. Before medicine, she worked in emergency planning and disaster management — including a post-Katrina deployment in North Carolina — before training in a general surgery program at Mission Hospital in Asheville, where she helped run the first-in-human clinical trial of Microlyte® as a resident.
About Brad Wiggins, BSN, RN, CBRN
Brad Wiggins, BSN, RN, CBRN served patients for over three decades as a burn unit nurse before transitioning to clinical education. Today, as Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Imbed Biosciences, he’s dedicated to advancing standards of care to help burn and wound care clinicians achieve better outcomes for patients.
Connect with https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-wiggins-bsn-rn-cbrn-36247851/
About Zero Zone
Zero Zone brings together the people at the forefront of burn and wound care for conversations about the future of tissue regeneration and SAMatrix™ (Synthetic Antimicrobial Technology).
With Brad Wiggins, longtime burn unit nurse turned clinical educator, surgeons, trauma specialists, and wound care teams share how they’re reducing complications and improving patient outcomes.
Hear discussion and analyses of real cases where SAMatrix™ Technology made the difference—what worked, what didn’t, and how protocols are evolving to reduce opioids, get patients moving sooner, and how the burn care community is on a collective mission to achieve zero complications – together.
Learn more about https://imbedbio.com/
Follow Imbed on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/Imbedbio/ and on https://www.linkedin.com/company/imbed-biosciences-inc/
Zero Zone is a production of The Axis: https://www.theaxis.io/
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18 MAR 2026 · Effective burn and wound care encompasses both pain control and infection risk management to ensure optimal outcomes as well as a superior patient experience.
Burn surgeon Dr. Victoria Miles and trauma surgeon Dr. Carmen Flores join host Brad Wiggins to discuss recent clinical experiences using emerging tissue regeneration technologies in complex burn and wound care, including https://imbedbio.com/ Synthetic Antimicrobial Matrix (SAMatrix™) Pelashield® PainGuard®, containing both antimicrobial silver and lidocaine HCl for simultaneous wound protection and pain-relief.
Through cases involving donor sites, chronic wounds, and limb salvage, they describe how incorporating these products into the care regime for these types of wounds can help create a more favorable healing environment.
Hear their approaches to managing donor site pain, controlling microbial burden in high-risk and colonized wounds, and supporting earlier mobility and graft integration for their patients. The surgeons note reductions in opioid requirements and the downstream impact that improved pain control can have on rehabilitation and recovery.
GUESTS
Victoria Miles, EMT-P, MD
Dr. Victoria Miles is an assistant professor of burn surgery at LSU and a burn surgeon with advanced training from UT Southwestern’s Parkland Hospital, where she earned the Top Knife Award for technical excellence. She is an active leader in national and international burn organizations and has authored more than 40 publications focused on burn care, resuscitation, and limb salvage.
Connect with https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-purvis-miles-emtp-md-96b791144/
Carmen Flores, MD, FACS
Dr. Carmen Flores is an acute care, trauma, and burn surgeon practicing at a Level I trauma center in Las Vegas, where she treats complex burn injuries, chronic wounds, and limb salvage cases. Her work focuses on managing high-risk, chronically infected wounds and improving patient outcomes through advanced surgical and wound care strategies, particularly in medically underserved settings.
About Brad Wiggins, BSN, RN, CBRN
Brad Wiggins, BSN, RN, CBRN served patients for over three decades as a burn unit nurse before transitioning to clinical education. Today, as Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Imbed Biosciences, he's dedicated to advancing standards of care to help burn and wound care clinicians achieve better outcomes for patients.
Connect with https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-wiggins-bsn-rn-cbrn-36247851/
About Zero Zone
Zero Zone brings together the people at the forefront of burn and wound care for conversations about the future of tissue regeneration and SAMatrix™ (Synthetic Antimicrobial Technology).
With Brad Wiggins, longtime burn unit nurse turned clinical educator, surgeons, trauma specialists, and wound care teams share how they're reducing complications and improving patient outcomes.
Hear discussion and analyses of real cases where SAMatrix™ Technology made the difference—what worked, what didn't, and how protocols are evolving to reduce opioids, get patients moving sooner, and how the burn care community is on a collective mission to achieve zero complications – together.
Learn more about https://imbedbio.com/
Follow Imbed on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/Imbedbio/ and on https://www.linkedin.com/company/imbed-biosciences-inc/
Zero Zone is a production of The Axis:https://www.theaxis.io/
Zero Zone brings together the people at the forefront of burn and wound care for conversations about the future of tissue regeneration and SAMatrix™ (Synthetic Antimicrobial Technology). With Brad Wiggins,...
show more
Zero Zone brings together the people at the forefront of burn and wound care for conversations about the future of tissue regeneration and SAMatrix™ (Synthetic Antimicrobial Technology).
With Brad Wiggins, longtime burn unit nurse turned clinical educator, surgeons, trauma specialists, and wound care teams share how they're reducing complications and improving patient outcomes.
Hear discussion and analyses of real cases where SAMatrix™ Technology made the difference—what worked, what didn't, and how protocols are evolving to reduce opioids, get patients moving sooner, and how the burn care community is on a collective mission to achieve zero complications – together.
Learn more about Imbed Biosciences
Follow Imbed on Instagram @imbedbio and on LinkedIn
show less
With Brad Wiggins, longtime burn unit nurse turned clinical educator, surgeons, trauma specialists, and wound care teams share how they're reducing complications and improving patient outcomes.
Hear discussion and analyses of real cases where SAMatrix™ Technology made the difference—what worked, what didn't, and how protocols are evolving to reduce opioids, get patients moving sooner, and how the burn care community is on a collective mission to achieve zero complications – together.
Learn more about Imbed Biosciences
Follow Imbed on Instagram @imbedbio and on LinkedIn
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| Author | The Axis |
| Organization | The Axis |
| Categories | Medicine , Science , Health & Fitness |
| Website | www.zerozonepodcast.com |
| podcasts@theaxis.io |
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