2010 Oral Abstracts

  1. WHY IS EWMA INTERESTED IN IMPLEMENTATION
  2. (2-4) OUTCOMES IN CONTROLLED AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON NON HEALING WOUNDS – RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF EVIDENCE IN WOUND MANAGEMENT – A EWMA PATIENT OUTCOME GROUP DOCUMENT
  3. See abstract 2
  4. See abstract 2
  5. PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED, MULTICENTER CLINICAL TRIAL OF A BIOCELLULOSE WOUND DRESSING FOR THE TREATMENT OF VENOUS ULCERS
  6. THE THREE BASIC COMPONENTS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF VENOUS ULCERS
  7. METAANALYSIS ABOUT THE ETIOLOGY OF 36606 PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LEG ULCERS IN Germany
  8. RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF SEROLOGIC PARAMETERS OF 50 PATIENTS DUE TO VASCULITIS: HOW MUCH DIAGNOSTIC IS MEANINGFUL?
  9. THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON ANKLE JOINT MOBILITY IN PATIENTS WITH VENOUS LEG ULCER
  10. ADHERENCE TO LEG ULCER TREATMENT: DEVELOPMENT OF A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK BASED ON A QUALITATIVE STUDY
  11. CONTINUOUS STREAMING OF PAPAIN SOLUTIONS FOR THE DEBRIDEMENT OF VENOUS LEG ULCERS
  12. CARACTERIZATION OF THE DIABETIC ULCER IN THE PORTUGUESE POPUTATION- A PREVALENCE STUDY
  13. PRE-MAUFACTURED SILICONE SOCKS IS A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OF DRY SKIN AND FISSURES IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETIC NEUORPATHY
  14. THE IMPACT OF NON-TRAUMATIC LOWER EXTREMITY AMPUTATIONS (LEA) ON PATIENTS: A TEN-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE STUDY AT A TERTIARY
    CARE HOSPITAL IN Canada
  15. EVALUATION OF THE EFFICACY AND TOLERANCE OF A DRESSING IMPREGNATED WITH NOSF (NANOOLIGOSACCHARIDE FACTOR), IN THE LOCAL MANAGEMENT OF DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
  16. ASSOCIATION BETWEEN, TNF, AGER AND MHC2TA POLYMORPHISMS AND DIABETIC FOOT ULCER
  17. A PROSPECTIVE CONTROLLED STUDY: TOPICAL WOUND OXYGEN THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERE DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
  18. EWMA EDUCATION COMMITTEE – WHERE WE ARE TODAY
  19. THE NEW STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING LEADS IN WOUND HEALING TRAINING TO: CONSENSUS, ACCREDITATION & LIFE-LONG-LEARNING
  20. CONTRIBUTION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS TO VALUABLE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH – THE PREVALENCE OF WOUNDS IN FLEMISH HOSPITALS EN HOMES FOR THE ELDERLY
  21. A STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE INFLUENCE OF EWMA ON THE BELGIAN POSTGRADUATE COURSE IN OSTOMY CARE, WOUND CARE AND TISSUE REPAIR
  22. A SURVEY OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSE EDUCATION IN EUROPE
  23. SIX DANISH PRESSURE ULCER PREVALENCE STUDIES
  24. PRIMARY WOUND CARE IN A DANISH COUNTY
  25. PREVALENCE OF LEG ULCER IN CZECH REPUBLIC – PHASE II AND III
  26. EWMA PROJECT – LEG ULCERS IN SLOVENIA: IMPLEMENTATION
  27. THE LEG ULCERS TREATMENT – POLISH STRATEGY MODEL
  28. BURULI ULCER, SETTING UP A PROGRAM IN AN AFRICAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL
  29. CHRONIC WOUNDS AND LYMPHOEDEMA: THE ROLE OF THE WAWLC IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE
  30. THE STEP-BY-STEP PROJECT; IMPROVING DIABETIC FOOT CARE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
  31. WOUND TREATMENT IN LEPROSY
  32. A FIRST EXPERIENCE TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE IN WOUND CARE IN CAMEROUN
  33. INVESTIGATION AND INTERVENTION – WHEN IS TIME TO ACT IN VENOUS WOUNDS?
  34. TIME TO ACT IN VASCULAR WOUNDS – THE DIABETIC FOOT
  35. WHEN IS ACTION REQUIRED IN VENOUS ULCERS?
  36. TIME TO ACT IN VASCULAR WOUNDS
  37. CANCELLED
  38. CHRONIC AND RECURRENT VENOUS ULCER TREATMENT, THE ROLE OF SURGERY
  39. A NEW APPROACH TO TREAT VENOUS ULCERS BY COMPRESSION THERAPY
  40. TOPICALLY APPLIED MORPHINE GEL FOR THE PAINTREATMENT OF CHRONIC LEG ULCERS: FIRST RESULTS OF A CLINICAL STUDY
  41. VENOUS LEG ULCER PATIENTS WITH LOW ABPI’S: HOW MUCH PRESSURE IS SAFE AND CAN BE TOLERATED?
  42. CLINICAL INVESTIGATION ON THE INFLUENCE OF OPTIC MARKS ON COMPRESSION BANDAGES SYSTEMS ON THE OBJECTIFIED PRESSURE
  43. PAIN ASSOCIATED WITH VENOUS ULCERS AND ITS RELATION TO DYNAMICS OF WOUND HEALING
  44. PREVALENCE OF MRSA IN CHRONIC VENOUS ULCERATION
  45. KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF NURSES ABOUT PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION IN BELGIAN HOSPITALS
  46. SOFT TISSUE-MANAGEMENT FOR A LIFESPAN IN A WHEELCHAIR FOR PARAPLEGIC PATIENTS
  47. PRESSURE ULCERS: INCIDENCE, CLASSIFICATION AND SCREENING A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY IN FIVE DIFFERENT UNITS IN Denmark
  48. PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION: RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRAIL COMPARING THE EFFECT OF A STANDARD ALTERNATING PRESSURE AIR MATTRESS AND A ALTERNATING LOW PRESSURE AIR MATTRESS WITH
    GRADUAL INFLATION AND DEFLATION
  49. AN ARGININE- AND MICRONUTRIENT-ENRICHED NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT ACCELERATES PRESSURE ULCER HEALING AND REDUCES WOUND CARE IN NONMALNOURISHED PATIENTS
  50. ETHICAL DECISION MAKING DILLEMAS IN PREVENTION OF PRESSURE ULCERS IN TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT
  51. ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF UNDERNUTRITION IN PRESSURE ULCER (PU) PATIENTS: RESULTS FROM THE AIUC (THE ITALIAN WOUND ASSOCIATION) SURVEY
  52. QUALITY OF CUTANEOUS COVER FOLLOWING PLASTIC SURGERY
  53. A COMPARISON BETWEEN A NEW AUTOMATIC SYSTEM AND DOPPLER METHOD FOR OBTAINING
  54. IMPLICATION OF STOCHASTIC RESONANCE IN A NOVEL ELECTRICAL FREQUENCY PATTERN ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC WOUNDS AND CHANGES OF PATTERN UPON HEALING
  55. HYDROSURGERY DEBRIDEMENT IN ISCHEMIC WOUND TREATMENT
  56. THE EFFECT OF SHOCKWAVES ON DIFFERENTIATION AND FUNCTION OF MYOFIBROBLAST
  57. WATER-FILTERED INFRARED-A (WIRA) IMPROVES WOUND HEALING
  58. POLYMERIC MEMBRANE DRESSINGS IN COMBINATION WITH TOPICAL NEGATIVE PRESSURE – THE VIENNESE Method
  59. TRANSCUTANEOUS OXIMETRY AS INDICATOR FOR SUCCESS TREATMENT WITH TNP
  60. BENEFITS OF ANALYSIS OF BLOOD MORPHOLOGY IN THE EVALUATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISTROPHYC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA (EB)
  61. THE OVERUSE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC WOUNDS
  62. ANALYSIS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS’S ADAPTATION CAPACITY TO ANTISEPTICS BY MICROPLATE-LASERNEPHELOMETRY
  63. IN VITRO EVALUATION OF POLIHEXANIDE: BIOCOMPATIBLE AND EFFECTIVE
  64. THE TIME RELATED CHANGES OF MICROBIAL COLONIZATION OF BURN WOUNDS AND BODY FLORA
  65. EFFECTS OF ULTRASONIC AND A HIGH-POWERED PARALLEL ORIENTED FLUIDJET HYDROSURGERY DEBRIDEMENT INSTRUMENT ON BACTERIAL BURDEN
  66. ANTISTREPTOLYSIN-O TITER IN THE MICROBIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS BETA-HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI IN SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE INFECTIONS?
  67. ACTIVE PRINCIPLES OF ACTIVE HONEY USED IN WOUND CARE
  68. THE EFFECT OF ELASTICITY ON SUB-BANDAGE PRESSURE OF TUBULAR COMPRESSION BANDAGES: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL
  69. HEMOGLOBIN A1C AS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF WOUND HEALING: A PRELIMINARY REPORT
  70. FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL ANTIMICROBIAL WAFERS FOR THE TOPICAL TREATMENT OF CHRONIC WOUNDS
  71. EFFICACY OF ANNONA SQUAMOSA LEAF EXTRACT ON DIABETIC WOUND HEALING IN RATS
  72. INFLUENCE OF NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY (NPWT) ON FIBROBLASTS IN 3D-CULTURE
  73. THE PERSPECTIVES OF APPLICATION OF THE ANTISEPTIC TO PREVENT MICROBIAL BIOFILM FORMATION ON THE HUMAN CELL CULTURE MODEL
  74. 33% APPROPRIATE WOUND DRESSINGS TO 100% IN 6 MONTHS: A PRE AND POST INTERVENTION STUDY
  75. PROSPECTIVE DOUBLE BLIND RANDOMISED EVALUATION OF NON-HEALING WOUNDS WITH EXPOSED BONES AND TENDONS TREATED WITH CHARGED POLYSTYRENE MICROSPHERES
  76. ASSESSMENTS VERIFY SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS OF AN ADHESIVE FOAM WOUND DRESSING
  77. PROMOTION OF HEALING, PAIN RELIEF, TOLERABILITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE: RESULTS OF A PROSPECTIVE, CONTROLLED, RANDOMIZED COMPARISON STUDY WITH TWO WOUND DRESSINGS IN OUT-PATIENTS WITH NONINFECTED LEG ULCERS Martin Abel
  78. REDUCTION OF INFECTION AND PAIN IN CHRONIC WOUNDS USING A NEW ANTIMICROBIAL FOAM DRESSING
  79. COMPARISON OF THREE DRESSING STRATEGIES FOR HEEL ULCERS: OUTCOME AND COST-EFFICIENCY RATIO
  80. THE IMPORTANCE OF STANDARDISING IN VITRO EVALUATIONS WHEN DETERMINING THE SILVER-RELEASE PROFILE OF ANTIMICROBIAL WOUND DRESSINGS
  81. A COMPARATIVE RETROSPECTIV CLINICAL STUDY BETWEEN TWO DRESSINGS FOR SURGICAL USE
  82. TO CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH HARD-TO-HEAL WOUNDS HOMECARE NURSES’ NARRATIVES
  83. A NOVEL WAY TO PROVIDE LEG ULCER EDUCATION FOR NURSES IN A RURAL AREA
  84. NORTH-SOUTH PROGRAM FOR THE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE ON WOUNDS AND HEALING
  85. AN INTERNATIONAL E-DELPHI STUDY TO DETERMINE THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PRIOITIES IN WOUND MANAGEMENT AND TISSUE REPAIR
  86. THE DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC VALIDATION OF A PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION KNOWLEDGE INSTRUMENT
  87. ADHERENCE WITH LEG ULCER LIFESTYLE ADVICE’: A PROMISING NURSING INTERVENTION FOR COMMUNITY CARE SETTINGS
  88. POLITICS, RESOURCES, OUTCOMES AND ACTIONS: A REAL-TIME SYNOPSIS IN AN ELDERLY CARE UNIT
  89. PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT NURSING IN WOUND MANGEMENT: A MODEL OF CARE
  90. NUTRITIONAL ASSESMENT AS A PART OF COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO THE CHRONIC WOUNDS TREATMENT
  91. HOSPITAL MANAGMENT WOUND COORDINATOR
  92. SIXTY SECOND SCREENING IDENTIFIES PERSONS AT RISK FOR DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS IN GUYANA
  93. INVOLVING THE FAMILIES IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC WOUNDS IN CYPRUS
  94. WOUND TREATMENT AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY, AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE TO PROMOTE
  95. SHOULD WE CONSIDER HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPYFOR THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE WOUNDS?
  96. WOUND COMPLICATIONS IN CLEAN ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY: RISK FACTORS AND ASSOCIATION WITH ANTIBIOTIC USE AND POSTOPERATIVE FEVER
  97. TOPICAL NEGATIVE PRESSURE IN THE TREATMENT OF DEEP STERNAL INFECTION AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY: 5-YEAR RESULTS OF FIRST-LINE APPLICATION PROTOCOL
  98. USE OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ARTIFICIAL SKIN) IN POST-TRAUMATIC MATTER LOSS IN THE HAND
  99. A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF A POLYACRYLATE-SUPERABSORBER SATURATED WITH RINGER SOLUTION FOR
    THE TREATMENT OF SUPERFICIAL AND PARTIAL TO FULL THICKNESS BURNS
  100. WHAT IS THE BEST EVIDENCE WE HAVE REGARDING WOUND CARE? A META REVIEW
  101. CAN DOCTORS USE THE RED-YELLOW-BLACK SCHEME TO ACCURATELY CLASSIFY DONORSITE WOUNDS? AN INTER-OBSERVER ANALYSIS
  102. RESEARCH PROJECT ‘QUTIS 3D’: WOUND DOCUMENTATION ON THE BASIS OF THREEDIMENSIONAL PATIENTS
  103. IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF VESSEL ALTERATIONS IN CHRONIC WOUNDS UNDER TOPICAL NEGATIVE PRESSURE (TNP)-THERAPY
  104. DIAGNOSTIC-THERAPEUTIC PROTOCOL FOR NEOPLASTIC ULCERS
  105. REPRODUCIBILITY OF WOUND AREA MEASUREMENT WITH LASER GUIDED PHOTOGRAPHY
  106. THE INTOLERABLE COST OF WOUNDS: THE VALUE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS IN WOUND MANAGEMENT
  107. THE COST OF TREATMENT AND SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION PROJECTS
  108. HEALTH ECONOMICS IN WOUND MANAGEMENT A CLINICAL PERPECTIVE
  109. PRESSURE ULCERS – EPIDEMIOLOGY AND IMPACT
  110. GUIDELINES FOR PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT
  111. IMPLEMENTING GUIDELINES IN PRACTICE – REPORT ON EXPERIENCES IN Germany
  112. MAKING THE CASE FOR PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION USING HEALTH ECONOMICS NOT AVAILABLE AT TIME OF PRINT
  113. IMPACT OF AGEING ON THE SKIN NOT AVAILABLE AT TIME OF PRINT
  114. INFLUENCE OF UNDERLYING DISEASES ON WOUND MANAGEMENT OF THE ELDERLY
  115. ERYSIPELAS: A RE-EMERGING DISEASE IN SOME WESTERN COUNTRIES
  116. A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO SKIN INTEGRITY IN THE ELDERLY
  117. THE FIRST 40 YEARS: WHAT’S NEXT
  118. CANCELLED
  119. A SOCIAL MODEL FOR LOWER LIMB CARE
  120. IMMUNOISTOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF VENOUS LEG ULCERS BEFORE AND AFTER NEGATIVE PRESSURE THERAPY
  121. CLINICAL INVESTIGATION ON NEW RELEVANT COFACTORS IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM
  122. WHY PATIENTS DO NOT ADHERE TO THE USE OF COMPRESSION STOCKINGS? DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NURSES’ AND PATIENTS’ PERCEPTIONS
  123. SKIN SYMPTOMS AROUND NON- HEALING VENOUS WOUNDS
  124. IMPACT OF STANDARDIZED TREATMENT IN A HEALING CENTER ON THE HEALING TIME OF VENOUS ULCERS
  125. LOCAL THERAPY USING WOUND DRESSING WITH IONIC SILVER AND ALGINATE HELPS IN HEALING OF DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
  126. COMPARATIVE CLINICAL STUDY TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF COLLAGEN/ORC+SILVER THERAPY ON WOUND HEALING OF DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
  127. APPLICATION OF GENTAMICIN- COLLAGEN SPONGE SHORTENED WOUND HEALING AFTER MINOR AMPUTATIONS IN DIABETIC PATIENTS
  128. THE VALUE OF THE NERVE DECOMPRESSION IN DIABETIC NEUROPATHY FOR THE PREVENTION OF FOOT ULCERS. A META ANALYSIS OF THE ACTUAL LITERATURE AND REPORT OF CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
  129. USAGE OF DIFFERENT LOCAL THERAPEUTICS IN PATIENTS WITH MRSA AND NON-MRSA INFECTED DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
  130. NUTRITIONAL TREATMENT FOR DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY Patrizio Tatti, Patrizia Di Mauro, Leonardo Masselli
  131. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY PRACTITIONER IN PROMOTING QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH LEG ULCERS?
  132. FACING THE LOOKS OF OTHERS: SEVERE FACIAL BURNS
  133. IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE OF BREAST CANCER PATIENTS THROUGH REHABILITATION AND PREVENTION OF LYMPHOEDEMA
  134. IMPACT OF DIABETIC FOOT ULCER PAIN ON LIFE QUALITY: THE PATIENT’S PERSPECTIVE
  135. IMPROVEMENT IN THE CARE AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC WOUNDS IN AN CONTEXT OF AN EVIDENCE-BASED QUALIFICATION
  136. AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF REPOSITIONING FOR THE PREVENTION OF PRESSURE ULCERS
  137. LYMPHOEDEMA PREVALENCE IN Ireland: A HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC BASED PILOT STUDY
  138. IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS FOLLOWING SURGERY FOR PILONIDAL SINUS
  139. A REGIONAL AUDIT OF COMMUNITY BASED WOUND CARE SERVICES IN Canada
  140. MAGGOT DEBRIDEMENT THERAPY (MDT): FIVE-YEAR REVIEW
  141. DRESSING PURCHASE GROUP: WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS FOR THE QUALITY OF TREATMENT?
  142. NWPT IN MANAGEMENT OF DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
  143. HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY AND DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
  144. NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE INFECTED DIABETIC FOOT
  145. PHARMACEUTICALS TO IMPROVE PERFUSION
  146. TOTAL CONTACT CAST (TCC) IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DIABETIC FOOT LESIONS
  147. GLOBAL RELIEF PLANNING IN DISRUPTED ENVIRONMENTS
    NOT AVAILABLE AT TIME OF PRINT
  148. MANAGEMENT OF WAR INJURIES IN RESOURCE LIMITED SETTINGS: THE ICRC EXPERIENCE
  149. SOFT TISSUE INJURIES IN FIELD SETTINGS
  150. BURN INJURIES
  151. INFECTION IN SURGICAL PATIENTS
  152. INFECTION AND BIOFILM: TREATMENT LATEST ADVANCES

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