European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
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Date: 01 Sep. -10 - 03 Sep. -10
Where: The University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
13th Annual European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Meeting.
Theme: Pressure Ulcers: The Flourishing of Science to Support Prevention and Healing.
Topics Include:
- Redefining pressure ulcers;
- Pressure ulcer risk assessment tools - friend or foe?
- How do cells deform, and how might that relate to pressure ulcers?
- Optical and nano approaches in wound healing;
- Pressure ulcers and dementia- is there a relationship?
- Why should we assess pain in pressure ulcers?
- Electrical stimulations to prevent pressure ulcers
- Animal models of spinal cord injury and their application to understand biomechanical changes occurring in deep tissue injury;
- Electrotactile biofeedback systems for preventing pressure ulcers;
- Repositioning in pressure ulcer prevention and management;
- What is different about heels: a review of the anatomy of the heel compared to other body sites and photographic evidence of the progress of the ulcers.
For more information contact Hayley Moss