Theme: Pressure Ulcers: The Flourishing of Science to Support Prevention and Healing

The University of Birmingham
Topics Include:
  • Redefining pressure ulcers;
  • Pressure ulcer risk assessment tools - friend or foe?
  • How do cells deform, and how might that relate to pressure ulcers?
  • Optical and nano approaches in wound healing;
  • Pressure ulcers and dementia- is there a relationship?
  • Why should we assess pain in pressure ulcers?
  • Electrical stimulations to prevent pressure ulcers;
  • Animal models of spinal cord injury and their application to understand biomechanical changes occurring in deep tissue injury;
  • Electrotactile biofeedback systems for preventing pressure ulcers;
  • Repositioning in pressure ulcer prevention and management;
  • 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.
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Accommodation

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