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Programme
Thirteenth Annual European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Meeting
September 1-3, 2010
University of Birmingham, England
Theme: The flourishing of science to support
prevention and healing
Wednesday, September 1st
Avon Lounge, Staff House
7.00 – 13.00
Registration
7.00 – 12.30
Poster set-up in Rotunda (above Great Hall)
Avon Room, Staff House
Chairs: Dr Carol Dealey, Prof. Amit Gefen
13.00 – 13.15
Conference opening ceremony
Dr Cees W.J. Oomens, The Netherlands, President of EPUAP
13.15 – 13.45
Redefining pressure ulcers
Dr Cees Oomens
13.45 – 14.15
The value that nurses place on pressure ulcer prevention and its
relationship with patient outcomes
Ray Samuriwo, Post Graduate Researcher, Wales
14.15 – 14.45
Pressure ulcer risk assessment tools – friend or foe?
Dr Lisette Schoonhoven, The Netherlands
14.45 – 16.00
Poster viewing & judging
16.00 – 17.00
Coffee and exhibition viewing – Great Hall, Aston Webb Building
17.00 – 17.15
Introductions to the investigator awards
Prof. Amit Gefen, Israel (Chair)
17.15 – 17.45
EPUAP established Investigator Award Lecturer
Dr Lisette Schoonhoven, The Netherlands on behalf of Professor
Tom Defloor, Belgium
17.45 – 18.15
EPUAP Novice Investigator Award Lecture
What constitutes health-related quality of life in pressure ulcers and
how can we measure it?
Claudia Gorecki, UK
18.30 – 19.30
Welcome drinks and reception in the Great Hall, Aston Webb
building
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Thursday, September 2nd
Avon Room, Staff House
9.00
Coffee, Avon Lounge
Chairs: Dr Cees Oomens, Hilde Heyman
9.30 – 10.00
How do cells deform, and how might that relate to pressure ulcers?
Prof. Amit Gefen, Israel
10.00 – 10.30
Optical and nano approaches in wound healing
Dr Elizabeth Papazoglou, USA
10.30 – 11.15
Coffee and exhibition viewing, Great Hall, Aston Webb building
Parallel sessions
Room G33, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
11.15 – 12.15
Free Papers session 1
Chairs: Anna Polak, Nils Lahmann
Randomized controlled clinical study on the application of the
treatment FREMS™ in the management of chronic ulcer of lower
limb
Cristina Magnoni, Italy
EPUAP / NPUAP Pressure Ulcer Practice Guideline: evidence for
electrical stimulation
Prof. Luther Kloth, USA
Clinical investigation in home care system on chronic wounds
treated with FREMS™ (Frequency Rhythmic Electrical Modulation
System)
Francesca Tomei, Italy
FREMS treatment in patients with ischemic ulcers: interim analysis
of a randomized controlled study
Cristiana Di Campli, Italy
Avon Room, Staff House
11.15 – 12.15
KCI Symposium
Pressure Ulcer Prevention: simplifying the science and
practice and the importance of microclimate
11.15 – 11.25
Introducing the process of consensus documentation: From
prevalence and incidence to pressure, shear, friction and
microclimate in context.
Carol Dealey
11.25 – 11.40
Microclimate in context: optimising skin conditions
Michael Clark
11.40 -11.55
Education and implementation in the daily clinical practice to
achieve zero prevalence
Isabel Bales
11.55 – 12.05
Holistic patient care: The UK experience
Fania Pagnamenta
12.05 – 12.10
Q&A
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12.10 – 12.15
Summary of Highlights symposium
Carol Dealey
12.15 – 13.15
Lunch and exhibition viewing Great hall, Aston Webb building
Avon Room, Staff House
Chairs: Dr Carol Dealey, Dr Marco Romanelli
Announcement of poster winner
13.15 – 13.45
Exploring variation in pressure ulcer prevalence in Sweden and the
US: International nursing benchmarking in action
Lena Gunningberg, Sweden
13.45 – 14.15
Pressure ulcers and dementia – is there a relationship?
Prof. Christina Lindholm, Sweden
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Thursday, September 2nd
Parallel sessions
Room G33, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
14.30 – 15.30
Randomised controlled trial workshop: Design considerations in
RCTs
Prof. Jane Nixon, Michelle Collinson, UK
Beale Room, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
14.30 – 15.30
ArjoHuntleigh Workshop
Assess
Mobility
 Manage
Pressure
 Optimise
Outcomes
Come and meet the ArjoHuntleigh ‘family’ - a living educational
tool used to express the individual challenges
associated with caring for patients with mobility impairment and so
vulnerability to pressure ulceration: tips and techniques for using
support surfaces and repositioning equipment safely and effectively.
Hosted by:
Lyn Phillips, UK
Fredrik Radencrantz, Sweden
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee and exhibition viewing, Great Hall, Aston Webb building
Parallel sessions
Avon Room, Staff House
Chairs: Anna Polak, Marco Romanelli
16.00 – 17.00
Pressure ulcer pain suffering: issues raised in a multi-centre pain
prevalence study
Prof. Jane Nixon, Lyn Wilson, UK
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
Elizabeth McGinnis, England
Why should we assess pain in pressure ulcers?
Prof Christina Lindholm, Sweden.
Room G33, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
16.00 – 17.00
Student Paper Competition, first session
Chairs: Hilde Heyman, Geert Vanwallegham
The use of interface-pressure, temperature and comfort measures
to define the optimum support surface for pressure ulcer
prevention
Lorna Tasker, UK
Effectiveness of Indonesia Honey toward acceleration of wound
healing: An experimental study in mice (Pilot Study)
G Haryanto, Japan
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Using a computer model to bridge published experimental seated
posture results
C Olesen, Denmark
Parallel sessions
Room G33, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
Chairs: Heli Kukko, Jane Nixon
17.00 – 18.00
Student Paper competition, second session
Risk assessment and management of pressure ulcers at a London
teaching hospital
Sridhayan Mahalingam, London, UK
Granulated sugar and osmotic VAC in treating exudating pressure
ulcers
Moses Murandu, Wolverhampton, England
Promoting a quality service in the independent sector by the
implementation and monitoring of a wound management
competency framework’
Kate Sprakes, Liverpool, UK
Beale Room, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
Chairs: Willi Young, Trudie Young
17.00 – 18.00
Free papers session 2
Characterization of wound dressings physical properties and their
potential impact on prevention of ulceration
Evan Call, USA
Making mobility the priority in a pressure ulcer prevention program
Tracey Yap, USA
Prevalence measurement of pressure ulcers: The impact of the
registration method on reliability
Nancy VanGenechten, Belgium
Results of 3 consecutive years of a yearly pressure ulcer
prevalence audit in an acute cardiothoracic trust
Fiona Downie, UK
20.00
Conference Dinner, Noble Suite, Staff House
Presentations by Dr Cees Oomens, EPUAP President:
To the winners of the poster prize and the novice and established
investigator awards
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Friday, September 3rd
Avon Room, Staff House
Breakfast available in the Avon Lounge
7.30 – 8.30
EHOB Breakfast session
The Heel: a model to understanding pressure ulcers
Dr James Spahn and Jacqui Fletcher
Avon Room, Staff House
Chairs: Lena Gunningberg, Trudie Young
09.00 – 09.45
Electrical stimulation to prevent pressure ulcers
Dr Vivian Mushahwar, Canada
09.45 – 10.15
A systematic review of the evidence to support electrical
stimulation in wound healing
Gerard Koel, The Netherlands
Beale Room, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
Chairs: Willi Jung, Dr Michael Clark
9.00 – 10.30
Oral poster presentation
Poster # 3
Laboratory and clinical practice of wound care procedures-nursing
students’opinion
Rui Baptista, Portugal
Poster # 6
ISO16840 testing of Shear Comfort XD1900 skin care material
E Call, USA
Poster # 11
Tissue Viability Services contribute to reducing costs and raising
quality aligned with to 10 impact actions from department of healt
inititiatives
Judy Elliott, UK
Poster # 32
A biomechanical model designed for real-time monitoring of
internal mechanical loads in soft tissues of the seated buttocks
based on pressure mat measurements
Amit Gefen, on behalf of Sigal Portnoy, Israel
Poster # 16
Impressao: A practical tool for pressure ulcer prevention
Joao Gouveia, Portugal
Poster # 17
Reimbursement of wound care products in Portugal: A survey
Joao Gouveia, Portugal
Poster # 19
Assessment of spinal cord injury patients with pressure areas in
the Community-an assessment tool andGuideline
Denise Hislop, New Zealand
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Poster # 20
Significant improvements demonstrate advancement in a foam
adhesive wound dressing
David Holm, USA
Poster # 26
Best practices for creating and managing a pressure ulcer
prevention environment
Susan Kennerly, USA
Poster # 27
Unconventional Nutritional Treatment of a Stage IV pressure ulcer
Celia Lopes, Portugal
Poster # 29
Development of a 4 degrees of freedom capacitive force sensor for
use on the skin surface – displacement inverse estimation
Chisato Murakami, Japan
Poster # 30
Sandwich-shaped necrosis in deep pressure ulcers
Takehiko Ohura, Japan
Poster # 31
Diversity of treatments for persons with wounds: Opinion of nurses
and nursing teachers
Luis Paiva, Portugal
Poster # 33
Neurostimulator for the treatment of critical limb ischemia in
patients technically inoperable.
Elia Ricci, Italy
Poster # 34
Pressure ulcer risk factors in persons with Spinal Cord injury at
acute and rehabilitation stages
Firas Sarhna, UK
Poster # 35
An evaluation of a friction/shear reducing material on patients at
risk of pressure ulceration in a district general hospital
Glenn Smith, UK
Poster # 36
Fast healing of pressure ulcers is delayed by bureaucracy
Madeleine Stenius, Sweden
Poster # 39
Assess the effectiveness of an all-in-one, dimethicone-impregnated
barrier cloth on patients with impaired skin integrity due to moisture
Adrian Torres, Spain
Poster # 41
From documents to the bedhead: definition and classification of
pressure ulcers
Bernabe Villareal, Spain
Poster # 42
Quality indicators and monitoring of pressure ulcers in an Acute
Care Hospital
Maria Dolores Candela Zamora, Spain
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Room G33, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
Chairs: Dr Lisette Schoonhoven, Prof. Jos Schols
9.00-10.15
Free Papers Session 3
Longitudinal study: sustained pressure injury improvements from
2002-2010
Jill Parke, Australia
Effectiveness of multi-facet tailored implementation of a
computerized patient-tailored pressure ulcer prevention protocol in
nursing homes: an RCT
Dimitri Beeckman, Belgium
Pressure ulcer programme of research – purpose
Prof. Jane Nixon, UK
The effectiveness of a multistage low pressure air mattress in
pressure ulcer prevention: an RCT
L. Demarre, Belgium
10.15 – 11.00
Coffee and exhibition viewing, Great hall, Aston Webb building
Parallel Sessions
Room G33, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
11.00 – 12.00
Lectures
Chair: Dr Peter Diesing, Germany
An update from the main ISO work programme
Why develop a standardised test to describe the off-loading
characteristics of ACTIVE therapy support surfaces
Lyn Phillips, Independent Clinical Consultant, UK
Laboratory measurements of interface pressures applied by active
therapy support surfaces: A consensus document
Dr Michael Clark, Welsh Wound Network, UK
The development of an appropriate support surface test
mannequin, its validation in Europe and Japan
Dr Richard Goossens, The Netherlands, Dr Makoto Takahashi,
Japan
Beale Room G29, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
11.00 – 12.00
Chairs: Prof. Christina Lindholm, Paulo Alves
Free Papers session 4
Words used to describe pressure ulcer pain: the results of a
systematic review and qualitative synthesis
M Briggs, UK
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Use of mobile phones technology to assess pressure ulcers in
person with spinal cord injury post discharge from rehabilitation
hospitals
Firas Sarhan, UK
Role of ischaemia and reperfusion in the aetiology of deep tissue
injury
Dr Cees Oomens, on behalf of S. Loerakker, The Netherlands
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Friday, September 3rd
Avon Room, Staff House
11.00 – 13.30
Danone Symposium
Malnutrition and pressure ulcers: adequate nutritional
strategy improves patient outcome
Introduction to the National Prevalence Measurement of care
problems
Prof. Ruud Halfens, The Netherlands
Measuring pressure ulcers and malnutrition in The Netherlands
and Austria
Noemie van Nie, The Netherlands
Creating a culturally safe National Pressure Ulcer Survey in
Aotearoa, New Zealand
Jan Weststrate, New Zealand
Pressure ulcer guideline dissemination and implementation in
Dutch nursing homes
Esther Meesterberends, The Netherlands
The relationship between malnutrition parameters and pressure
ulcers
Dr Judith Meijers, The Netherlands
Specific nutritional support accelerates pressure ulcer healing and
reduces wound care in non-malnourished patients
Prof. Jos Schols, The Netherlands
12.00 – 13.00
Lunch and exhibition viewing, Great Hall, Aston Webb building Hall
Avon Room, Staff House
Chairs: Dr Michael Clark, Prof. Amit Gefen
13.00 – 13.30
Injury-related molecules in serum & urine may indicate the onset of
deep tissue injury on a rat SCI-DTI mod
Dr Mohsen Makhsous, USA
13.30 – 14.00
Biofeedback systems for preventing pressure ulcers
Prof. Yohan Payan, France
Parallel Sessions
Room G33, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
14.15 – 15.15
Lectures Chairs: Lena Gunningberg, Trudie Young
A novel ultrasound protocol for determining the Compression
Intensity Index: A case of conducting reliability studies
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Jillian Swaine, Western Australia
Prevalence studies: Can we compare the results?
Prof. Christina Lindholm, Sweden
Repositioning : make effective interventions!
Paulo Alves, Portugal
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Friday, September 3rd
Beale Room, near Great Hall, Aston Webb building
14.15 – 15.30
Chairs: Dr Carol Dealey, Dr Michael Clark
Free papers session 5
Treatment of non healing pressure sores with Electrical Stimulation
(E-Stim)
Elia Ricci, Italy
How keratinocytes sense electrical guidance cues that direct their
migration to heal wounds
Christine Pullar, UK
The evaluation of the efficiency of high voltage electrical
stimulation in the pressure ulcer healing process
Anna Polak, Poland
Pressure ulcer prevention: The effect of different lying positions on
tissue blood flow, temperature and interface pressure in elderly
patients – an ongoing study
Ulrika Kallman, Sweden
Avon Room, Staff House
14.15 – 15.45
Gaymar Symposium
Preliminary Consensus Statements for a New Paradigm on the
Progression and Development of Pressure Ulcers: Your input
is needed
Moderators: Dr Thomas Stewart and Cindy Sylvia, USA
Speakers:
Dr Amit Gefen, Israel
Dr Jan Kottner, Germany
Dr Diane Krasner, USA
Dr Gary Sibbald, Canada
15.15 – 16.15
Coffee in Avon Lounge, Staff House
Parallel Sessions
Avon Room, Staff House
16.15 – 17.15
Lectures
Chairs: Dr Cees Oomens, Paulo Alves
Adoption of the international EPUAP/NPUAP guidelines to a local
guideline in the Netherlands.
Meike van Halm-Walters, The Netherlands
The challenge of implementing international guidelines
Dr Carol Dealey, Birmingham, UK
17.15 – 17.30
Close of conference and introduction to the 14th European
Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel conference, Porto Portugal 2011
Dr Cees Oomens, Paulo Alves