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Volume 12 Number 1 January 2012 Published by European Wound Management Association FOCUS ON THE AUSTRIAN W UND ASSOCIATION The EWMA Journal ISSN number: 1609-2759 Volume 12, No 1, January, 2012 EWMA Electronic Supplement January 2012 www.ewma.org Council The Journal of the European Jan Apelqvist Zena Moore Wound Management Association President Immediate Past President Published three times a year Editorial Board Sue Bale, UK, Editor Jan Apelqvist, Sweden Martin Koschnick, Germany Zena Moore, Ireland Marco Romanelli, Italy Rytis Rimdeika, Lithuania Corrado M. Durante Gerrolt Jukema Sue Bale Patricia Price José Verdú Soriano, Spain Treasurer Recorder Secretary Secretary Rita Gaspar Videira, Portugal Salla Seppänen, Finland EWMA web site www.ewma.org Editorial Office Paulo Alves Barbara E. Mark Collier Javorka Delic please contact: den Boogert-Ruimschotel EWMA Secretariat Nordre fasanvej 113 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark. 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García-Fernández, Spain Sylvie Maume, France 5 Editorial Jan Apelqvist Science, Practice and Education 7 How to rate the wound debridement trauma? Jan Stryja ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENT 14 Ensuring equitable wound management education within the Australian context January 2012 Jan Rice 18 Low wound prevalence and cost burden: The impact of a multidisciplinary wound specialist team Volume 12 Number 1 January 2012 Alison Hopkins, Fran Worboys, John Posnett Published by ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMEN European Wound Management Association 18 The results of a comprehensive wound audit in a T UK primary care trust Alison Hopkins, Fran Worboys 21 Pressure ulcer programme of research – PURPOSE F Nixon J, Wilson L.M, Coleman S, Gorecki C, Muir D, Pinkney L, OCUS ON Keen J, Briggs M, McGinnis E, Stubbs N, Dealey C, Nelson A 27 The skin’s own bacteria may aggravate inflammatory THE AUSTRIAN and occlusive changes in atherosclerotic arteries of lower limbs W Waldemar L. Olszewski, Piotr Andziak, M. Moscicka-Wesolowska, UND Bozenna Interewicz, Ewa Swoboda, Ewa Stelmach 33 Problem with the post burn wound pain: Chronic profiles ASSOCIATION Laima Juozapaviciene, Rytis Rimdeika, Aurika Karbonskiene EBWM 40 Abstracts of recent Cochrane reviews Sally Bell-Syer EWMA 42 EWMA Journal Previous Issues and other Journals 44 The Austrian Wound Association AWA The January edition of the EWMA Journal Arja Riegler, Franz Trautinger 46 The Amputation Register Project by the Austrian Society Electronic Supplement includes articles with of Surgery and the Austrian Wound Association Gerald Zöch news from EWMA Cooperating Organisations. 48 Diabetic Foot Activities in Austria Jan Apelqvist, Thomas Pieber, Gerald Zöch All organisations have been invited to contribute 50 Wound care in Russia and Neighbouring Countries: with information about their organisation, its Symposium at EWMA 2012 and other activities Rytis Rimdeika, Robert Strohal recent activities, research projects and meetings, 51 Meeting with MEP Vittorio Prodi as well as their political and scientific involve- 52 Pisa International Diabetic Foot Course 2011 Alberto Piaggesi ment in wound care on a national level. 54-56 Book Review Sue Bale, Salla Seppänen Contents 58 The EWMA Master Course 2011 Zena Moore Italian Nurses’ Cutaneous Wounds Association AISLeC 60 Conference Report: Leg Ulcer & Compression Seminars Italian Association for the Study of Cutaneous Ulcers AUIC Finn Gottrup, Hugo Partsch Croatian Wound Association CWA 62 EWMA Corporate Sponsors Lithuanian Wound Management Association LWMA 63 EWMA Activities Update The Hungarian Wound-management Association MSKT Organisations The National Association of Tissue Viability Nurses, Scotland 64 Conference Calendar NATVNS 66 The 14th EPUAP Annual Meeting in Porto Portugal Swiss Association for Wound Care SAfW Michael Clark Tissue Viability Society TVS 68 SAfW – 13th Symposium on Modern Wound Therapy Association for Wound Management of Bosnia and Severin Läuchli, Jürg Hafner Herzegovina URuBiH 70 Overview on WAWLC activities during 2011 David Keast Wound Management Association of Ireland WMAI 72 WMAI – Building the Future of Wound Care Wound Management Association of Turkey WMAT 15th Anniversary Conference Georgina Gethin 74 Cooperating Organisations 75 International Partner Organisations WWW.EWMA.ORG 75 Associated Organisations 3 If society fails to meet its growing healthcare costs, future generations will pick up the bill. We cannot let that happen. For patients. For budgets. For today.™ Wound Management T +44 (0) 1482 225181 www.smith-nephew.com/wound Smith & Nephew F +44 (0) 1482 328326 Medical Ltd ™Trademark of Smith & Nephew 101 Hessle Road © Smith & Nephew August 2011 Hull HU3 2BN 30626 UK Editorial would like to begin this editorial by wishing n To contribute to the recognition of health you all a peaceful and successful 2012. 2012 economics and organisation of care as a tool to I will be my first full year as the president of improve management and care. EWMA. In this position I succeed the previous n To advocate for the recognition of the industry president of EWMA, Zena Moore. I would like as an owner of valid information, experience to take this opportunity to thank Zena Moore for and skills which give grounds for inviting all her hard work and great efforts to define and wound care companies to act as potential develop EWMA during her presidential period. partners in the efforts to improve management and care. In previous years, EWMA has, amongst other things, focused on: The multidisciplinary approach to wound man- n Further developing wound management agement is essential for successful wound manage- education in Europe by taking steps towards ment. Despite this, the understanding of the establishing a wound care teacher network and benefits of multidisciplinary wound management new educational initiatives. still needs to be fully understood and approved