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

1st-3rd September 2010, Birmingham, UK
Venue: The University of Birmingham

Topics included:

• 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