FOURTEENTH ANNUAL EUROPEAN PRESSURE ULCER ...

Morning sessions
Thursday, September 1st
08.30 Coffee and exhibition viewing
Auditorium
Theme – Pressure ulcers – scientific developments
Chair – Mr Geert Vanwalleghem, Professor Dan Bader
9.00 – 9.40 Mathematical models to describe wound healing and wound contraction
Professor Fred Vermolen, Delft, The Netherlands
9.40 – 10.20 Wound models in monolayer cell cultures, quantitative analysis of
cell kinematics
Professor Amit Gefen, Tel Aviv, Israel
10.20 – 11.00 Using MR elastography to map changes in muscle and other tissues due to
mechanical loading and disease
Professor Lynne Bilston, New South Wales, Australia
Room A4
9.00 – 10.30 KCI Symposium
A new chapter in pressure ulcer prevention and treatment;
the Skin IQ microclimate manager
Chairs: Professor Joyce Black, Professor Michael Clark,
09.00 – 09.10 An introduction to skin-microclimate and how it influences skin integrity
Michael Clark
9.10 – 9.30 Negative airflow technology for microclimate management; pre-clinical data
Joyce Black
09.30 – 09.50 Skin IQ Microclimate Manager, results of a pilot study on 43 hospital
patients with moisture issues in Germany
Nils Lahmann
09.50 – 10.05 Skin IQ microclimate management in pressure ulcer prevention
and treatment
Eddy Koopman:
10.05 – 10.20 Beyond pressure ulcers; the beneficial effects of moisture contro in
vulnerable patients
Jacques Neyens:
10.20 – 10.30 Interactive discussion and Q and A
Closure 10.30
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee and exhibition viewing
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