BURNS PROGRAMME
Wednesday 5 October 2005
TIME
TOPIC
Chairperson
H Rode
07h30 – 08h30
Registration, Tea and exhibition
08h30 – 08h40
Welcome
08h40 – 09h00
Welcome Address
09h00 – 09h30
Burn injuries the full picture
J Partridge
09h30 – 10h00
The Epidemiology of Global Paediatric Burns
A Burd
10h00 - 10h30
TEA
10h30 – 13h00
10h30 – 11h00
SESSION : Epidemiology and Prevention
Chairperson: A Burd
Epidemiology and treatment of ambulatory burnt patients
N Piccolo
11h00 – 11h20
Prevention of paediatric burns - the Swedish model
O Strand
11h20 – 11h40
Burn prevention around the Swiss national dish
D Stiefel
11h40 – 12h00
Fires in a human settlement
K Yates
12h00 – 12h15
Campaigning to ban the firebomb stoves
T Kruger
12h15 – 12h30
A Haller
12h45 – 13h00
Burn case 3D: Three dimensional documentation of Burns with automated
encoding, data base, photo documentation, archiving and data analyses tool –
situation of the project
Epidemiology revisited – childhood burns in Zaria, Northern Nigeria – What has
changed in twenty years
Prevention and reducing cross infection using traffic lights as a guide
13h00 – 14h00
LUNCH
12h30 – 12h45
H Rode
The Honourable Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy
Minister L Xingwana
POSTER SESSION
M Asuku
J James
A
Chairperson: M Davies
14h00 – 17h00
Parallel Session - Room A
14h00 – 14h20
SESSION: Research, alternative fuels and burn wound dressings.
Chairperson: H Lochbuehler
Identifying epithelial stem cells in human skin
L Pontiggia
14h20 – 14h40
New experimental burn model
A Burd
14h40 – 14h55
A comparison between ethanol gel fuel and paraffin as a prime resource of energy
A Szabo
14h55 – 15h05
Hydrogel based dressings
A Burd
15h05 – 15h15
Acticoat (with silrcryst TM nanocrystals) burn antimicrobial barrier dressing as an
effective barrier to bacterial prevention
A Merone
15h15 – 15h25
Acticoat – dressing for burns
O Hadzhiyski
15h25 – 15h35
Cost analysis of nanocrystalline silver barrier dressings in the management of
paediatric burns
H Matuszek
15h35 – 16h00
TEA
Parallel Session - Room A
SESSION: Biological dressings
Chairperson: T Potokar
16h00 – 16h10
The use of suprathel in the treatment of 2nd degree burns in children
H Lochbuehler
16h10 – 16h20
Suprathel: first experience and application observations
H Haller
16h20 – 16h30
Biobrane experience in Bristol 2002-3
C Estela
16h30 – 16h40
Experience with the use of topical antimicrobial and dressings for skin grafts at
Chris Hani Baragwanath Centre
R Muganza
16h40 – 16h50
The hemicellulose dressing Veloderm for skin lesions in children
N Piccolo
16h50 – 17h00
Infection in the local treatment of paediatric burns – prevention and therapy
N Piccolo
Parallel Session – Room B
14h00 – 17h00
SESSION: Epidemiology,and wound management
Chairperson: R Riggenbach
14h00 – 14h15
Epidemiology of burns in India
S Chamania
14h15 – 14h30
Paraffin stoves
Sr. Makalena
14h30 – 14h45
Aquacell Ag in paediatric burns – A prospective audit
T Potokar
14h45 – 15h00
The use of tannins in the local treatment of burn wounds (A pilot study in 20
patients
EJ van Hasselt
15h00 – 15h10
Factors influencing the length of hospitalisation of paediatric burn patients
G Esposito
15h10 – 15h20
Results of the use of Sorusal and legius activated carbon dressings for the
treatment of wounds
SW Smirnov
15h20– 15h30
The use of dermal substitute Hyalomatrix PA in Pediatric burn patients
G Esposito
15h30 – 16h00
TEA
Parallel Session – Room B
SESSION: Education, nutrition and rehabilitation
Chairperson: S Chamania
16h00 – 16h20
Post graduate burn nursing education - Flexible options for course delivery
S McRae
16h20 – 16h30
Splinting the axilla burn – our 24 year experience and an international survey
H Martin
16h30 – 16h40
Burn disease - Problems in nutritional interventions
M Spodaryk
16h40 – 16h50
When a burn unit does not deal with burns
A Tamisani
16h50 – 17h00
Paediatric post burn contractures in Nigeria
M Chira
17h00 – 18h00
Annual General Meeting
South African Burn Society
European Club for Paediatric Burns
Thursday 6 October 2005
08H00 – 12h00
Parallel session:
08H00 – 10h00
SESSION: How to minimise to get to the essential: What are the aims and
main issues with the resource we have
The lower extremity – physical therapy
10h00 – 12h00
The hand – Occupational therapy
O8h00 – 10h00
08h00 – 08h30
SESSION: Basic Sciences, Anaesthesiology and Pain Management
Chairperson: A Madaree
When science meets clinical practice
08h30 – 08h50
Anaesthesia for minor/major burns
E Reichmann
M Meuli
J Thomas
08h50 – 09h10
Is there a place for regional anaesthesia in burns
A Bosenberg
09h10 – 09h30
The use of virtual reality games in modulating pain in paediatric burns
A Sparnon
09h30– 09h40
Clinical experience of nitrous oxide for the treatment of procedural pain in children
with burn injuries
A Lindberg
09h40 – 09h50
Clinical experience of nasal sufentanil and s-ketamine for the treatment of
procedural pain in children with burn injuries
M Segerberg
09h50 – 10h00
How can parents support their child effectively during the burn treatment and does
parent participation during hydrotherapy reduce the paediatric burn pain and
distress
A Schlüer
10h00 – 10h30
TEA
10h30 – 13h00
10h30 – 11h00
SESSION: Surgery
Chairperson: N Piccolo
Microsurgical reconstruction in paediatric burns
A Burd
11h00 – 11h30
Burn reconstruction with tissue expanders
N Piccolo
11h30 – 12h00
Vacuum assisted dermal recruitment: wound closure for the future
M van der Velde
12h00 – 12h30
Facial reconstruction
D Hudson
12h30 – 13h00
The use of TranCyte for facial burns
H Rode
13h00 - 14h00
LUNCH
RE – CELL WORKSHOP
R Riggenbach
V Tebben
F Eberli
R Pfann
F Darondeau
14h00 – 17h00
Parallel session – Room A
14h00 – 14h30
SESSION: History, grafts, management and mortality
Chairperson: O Strand
The Zora Janzekovic Story
S Prader
14h30 – 14h40
Developing vascularised skin grafts
E Reichmann
14h40 – 14h55
Control of hypertrophic scar from inception by using Zenogenic (Porcine) acellular
dermal matrix (ADM) to cover deep second degree burns
F Xiang - Sheng
14h55 – 15h05
Perioperative management of paediatric burns
W Smith
15h05 – 15h15
Review of 75 deaths over a 15 year period in a Burns Unit
S Vadia
15h15 – 15h30
Long-term assessment of scar quality after a split thickness skin grafting from the
scalp in children
D Wyrzykowski
15h30 – 16h00
TEA
Parallel session – Room A
SESSION: Reconstruction
Chairperson: R Mucanza
16h00 – 16h10
Total ear reconstruction of post burn deformities
D Struwig
16h10 – 16h20
Paediatric post burn keloids; a management problem
R Nnabuko
16h20 – 16h30
Rehabilitation of the under age patient with foot and ankle joint deformation after
third degree burns
B Shakirov
16h30 – 16h40
Let them grow, self-filling expander for reconstructive surgery in burned children
C Schiestl
16h40 – 16h50
Burn scar management for therapists – an education tool
H Martin
16h50 – 17h00
Some treatment modalities of post – burn contractures: foot
B Shakirov
Parallel session - Room B
14h00 – 14h15
SESSION: Burn injuries, complications, and physiotherapy
Chairperson: J Thomas
An experimental module of an electrical injury to the peripheral nerve
F Kun-Wu
14h15 – 14h30
Burn contractures
A Madaree
14h30 – 14h45
Post corrosive burn sequelae in Nigerian children
R Nnabuko
14h45 – 15h00
Unhealed wounds, Hypoalbuminemia and cachexia in a burned child – Where is
the limit
M Trop
15h00 – 15h10
Experience of 19 years of emergency reconstruction of electrical injuries
Z Zhi-Xiang
15h10 – 15h20
Application of the clean technique of lamina flow in burn treatment
C Hua -De
15h20 – 15h30
First experience with a one-step procedure for dermal reconstruction and STS
graft in 3 degree paediatric burns
C Leriche
15h30 – 16h00
TEA
Parallel session - Room B
SESSION: Humanities and topical therapy
Chairperson: H Martin
16h00 – 16h15
Burns and Pregnancy, the neglected tragedy
G de Aguir
16h15 – 16h30
Child abuse by burns in the first world
A Issler
16h30 – 16h40
Burns and women abuse: fact or myth
J Yiga
16h40 – 16h50
Physiotherapy and hand burns.
S Khan
16h50 – 17h00
Children under pressure
J Buerge
Friday 7 October 2005
08h00 - 10h00
08h00 – 09h00
SESSION: Psycho social issues in rehabilitation after burn injuries
Chairperson: J Partridge
Keynote Address: The challenges of returning to society after burn injuries
J Partridge
09h00 – 09h15
Reactive Attachment Disorder in the context of a burn victim
H Jordaan
09h15 – 09h30
Art therapy
A Rackstraw
09h30 – 09h45
Music therapy
C Wildman
09h45 – 10h00
Aromatic therapy
L O’Flaherty
10h00 - 10h30
TEA
10h30 – 10h45
Working with parents
L. Frenkel
10h45 – 11h00
Camp Coroboree
C Templeton /
S Spalding
11h00 – 11h15
The value of an adventure base camp program and its impact on the self-esteem
of burn survivors
W Brookstein
11h15 – 12h00
Discussions
12h00 - 13h00
LUNCH
13h00 - 15h00
13h00 – 13h30
SESSION: Ethics, Humanities and Rehabilitation
Chairperson: A Burd
Ethics in burn care
F Wood/H Rode
13h30 – 13h50
Presenting a case study: 95% paediatric burn
B Castle
13h50 – 14h10
The influence of modern technology on modern burn care: help or hindrance
T Potokar
14h10 – 14h30
Fitting burn treatment into the wider society
H Martin
14h30 – 15h00
Economical survivor efforts to warrant adequate long term burn patient care
N Piccolo
15h00 – 15h30
TEA and DISCUSSION
H Rode
A Burd
15h30 16h00
Closure
POSTER SESSIONS:
(5 MINUTES PER POSTER PRESENTATION.)
Wednesday Lunch Time 13h00 – 14h00
Chairperson M Davies
A Merone:
The therapy of facial burns with Jaloskin
K Silfvenius
Preparation and processing hospital experience for burned children and
adolescents
K Berggern
Treating children with hypertrophies scars: An occupational experience
C Dreyer
Feasibility study of opening a specialist rehabilitation unit in the Western Cape
T. Potokar
Bangers, Burgers and Burns. A review of paediatric barbeque burns in South
Wales over the last 10 years
P de Wet
The spectrum of multi – antibiotics and antiseptic resistant bacterial
wound infections
R Moodley
Burn survivor camps: What are they and how can South African burn survivors
and health professionals benefit from these camps
Thursday Lunch Time 13h00 – 14h00
Chairperson M Meuli
A Prinsloo
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital Burns Unit – Nutritional Protocol
R Muganza
Prevention of stress ulcer bleeding at Chris Hani Baragwanath Burns Centre
S Pancani
Conservative management of a large loss of tissue in a newborn baby with
Dorsal myelomenincocele and complex cerebral malformations
S Chamania
Low cost burn care in India
G De Aguir
Versajet Hydrosurgery in Burns
D Gelezauskas
23% and 20% TBSA flame burns associated with respiratory tract injury of 6
month old twin sisters – Case report.
H Tilley
What do you think they should know?
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