Electronic Supplement for EWMA Journal January 2010

Editorial

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the latest edition of the EWMA Journal Electronic Supplement. We are very excited about this edition as it includes articles and news from EWMA Cooperating Organisations.

One of the main purposes of EWMA is to secure a close cooperation between national wound management organisations in Europe. Currently, EWMA cooperates with more than 46 organisations based in more than 35 countries across Europe.

As a Cooperating Organisation, EWMA offers access to a wide variety of activities and support, such as networking with wound management organisations and research institutions in Europe and abroad. Furthermore, there are opportunities to profile the organisation through presentations and articles at the EWMA website, in the EWMA Journal and through the annual EWMA conference.

This current issue has contributions from 11 organisations based in Belgium, Italy, Croatia, Portugal, Spain, England, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey.

The January edition of the EWMA Journal Electronic Supplement provides a great opportunity to learn more about activities in wound care across Europe and reflects the Cooperating Organisations’ commitment to research and development in this specialist area.

EWMA is also extending its partnership with international societies involved in wound care and in the future we would welcome news and scientific contributions from non-European countries.

We hope that you will enjoy reading this edition of the EWMA Journal Electronic Supplement!

Marco Romanelli

Immediate Past President
Chair EWMA Cooperating Organisations Board

Contents

News from EWMA Cooperating Organisations:

• EWMA Journal Electronic Supplement 
• the Francophone Nurses' Association in Stoma Therapy, Healing and Wounds (AFIScep) 
• the Italian Nurses' Cutaneous Wounds Association (AISLeC)
• the Italian Association for the study of Cutaneous Ulcers (AIUC)  
• the Croatian Wound Association (CWA)
• the Associated Croup of Research in Wounds (GAIF)
• the National Advisory Group for the Study of Pressure Ulcers and Chronic Wounds (GNEAUPP)
• the Norwegian Wound Healing Association (NIFS)
• the Slovak Association for Wound Care (SSOOR) 
• the Tissue Viability Society (TVS)
• the Wound Management Association of Turkey (WMAT)

Electronic Supplement May 2009

 

Contents

• Oral abstracts EWMA 2009
• Poster abstracts EWMA 2009

Electronic Supplement January 2009

 

Contents

News from EWMA Cooperating Organisations:

• the Francophone Nurses' Association in Stoma Therapy, Healing and Wounds (AFISCeP) 
• the Italian Nurses' Cutaneous Wounds Association (AISLeC)
• the Italian Association for the study of Cutaneous Ulcers (AIUC)  
• the Croatian Wound Association (CWA)
• the German Society of Wound Healing and Wound Treatment (DGfW)
• the Finnish Wound Care Society (FWCS)
• the Malta Association of Skin and Wound Care (MASC)
• the National Association of Tissue Viability Nurses, Scotland (NATVNS)
• the Swedish Wound Care Nurses Association (SSiS)
• the Icelandic Wound Healing Society (SumS) 
• the Tissue Viability Society (TVS)
• the Association for Wound Management of Bosnia and Herzegovina (URuBiH)
• the Wound Management Association of Ireland (WMAOI)
• the Wound Management Association of Slovenia (WMAS)
• the Wound Management Association of Turkey (WMAT)

Editorial

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the latest edition of the EWMA Journal Electronic Supplement. We are very excited about this edition as it includes articles and news from EWMA Cooperating Organisations, along with presentations of new Cooperating Organisations.

One of the main purposes of EWMA is to secure a close cooperation between national wound management organisations in Europe. Currently, EWMA cooperates with more than 40 organisations based in more than 25 countries across Europe.

As a Cooperating Organisation, EWMA offers access to a wide variety of activities and support, such as networking with wound management organisations and research institutions in Europe and abroad. Furthermore, there are opportunities to profile the organisation through presentations and articles at the EWMA website and in the EWMA Journal.

This current issue has contributions from Belgium, Italy, Germany, Finland, Malta (a new Cooperating Organisation), England, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Bosnia & Herzegovina (also a new Cooperating Organisation), Turkey and Iceland.

Central to the drive for evidence-based practice is access to the latest research and developments in current practice, this edition of the Electronic Supplement acts as an exemplar in this regard. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about activities in wound care across Europe and reflects the Cooperating Organisations’ commitment to research and development in this specialist area.

We hope that you will enjoy reading this supplement and that you will encourage your colleagues to read it also, after all, dissemination of information is one of the keys to successful patient outcomes.

Zena Moore,

Honorary Secretary & President Elect,
Chair EWMA Cooperating Societies Board

Electronic Supplement October 2008

Contents

• Pyoderma gangrenosum – one of the causes of lower limb ulcers
• Early assessment of abdominal wound healing after surgical treatment due to ulcerative colitis and rectal cancer: single-center experience
• Evaluation of efficiency of compression therapy in enhancement of venous leg ulcer healing in patients after surgical treatment
• Plethysmographic features of venous reflux and impaired venous outflow do not influence the results of treatment of venous leg ulcers
• Analysis of the flora of venous and diabetic ulcerations

Dear Fellow EWMA Members,

We are very pleased and honored to welcome you to the Electronic Supplement of EWMA Journal October 2008 presenting selected papers published in the official journal of the Polish Wound Management Society – „Wound Management” („Leczenie Ran”). As soon as the Polish Wound Management Society was established in 2002 we decided to start the independent and specialized periodical on professional wound management and research presenting Polish developments to the Polish medical doctors and nurses, who make up the team in professional wound care.

Everybody knows how difficult it is to establish and then run such a journal especially in a highly competitive environment of scientific information. Together with a professional publishing house which has an outstanding experience on the Polish publishing market – Blackhorse Scientific Publishers, Ltd. - we successfully published five volumes of the journal – firstly as a quarterly issue and now, for more than  a year, bimonthly.

All collected papers, except EWMA Position Documents and WUWHS official documents, are original and not published elsewhere before. We have a lot to do in order to improve the scientific quality and international distribution of the journal, but we are very proud to be visible and well recognized within the Polish medical community.

So far, we have established excellent cooperation with Polish Burns Society and Polish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery which appointed „Wound Management” as their official journals. Thanks to this cooperation we welcome every year the official meetings of these societies publishing abstracts and then full papers. One of the most crucial developments of this alliance is the worldwide renowned World Congress of the European Club of Paediatric Burns going to be held in Gdansk/Poland on October 8—10, 2008. “Wound Management” is proud to welcome all the scientific papers to be presented in the very recent issue of the journal.

We are looking forward, to expand into Central and Eastern European countries. In order to achieve this goal we would be very pleased to serve the best editorial service for all Fellow Colleagues form all over Europe who would consider submission of their scientific papers to “Wound Management”. We admire all your personal involvement in wound care research, and we would be happy to put all EWMA Fellow Members to the fast editorial pathway to have your papers published as soon as the peer review process is successfully completed.

We hope, you will join us soon and we will be able to present your research in “Leczenie Ran”.

Enjoy the issue!

Yours sincerely,

Zbigniew Rybak
Honorary Editor, “Wound Management”

Grzegorz Oszkinis
Editor-in-Chief, “Wound Management”

Piotr M. Dobosz
Publisher, “Wound Management”

Electronic Supplement for EWMA Journal May 2008

Contents

• Oral abstracts EWMA 2008
• Poster abstracts EWMA 2008 

EWMA Journal Electronic Supplement January 2008

Contents

1. AISLec – Italian Nurse Association for the Study of Cutaneous Wounds
2. APTFeridas – The Portguese Wound Management Association
3. AWA – Austrian Wound Association
4. GAIF (Portuguese Organisation) – The Wound Care Research Group
5. ICW (German organisation) – Initiative Chronic Wounds
6. NATVNS – National Association for Tissue Viability Nurses (Scotland)
7. NIFS – Norwegian Wound Management Association
8. SAWMA – The Serbian Advanced Wound Management Association
9. SUMS – Iceland Wound Healing Society
10. WMAS – The Slovenian Wound Management Association

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