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EWMA
MADRID
A city where you will find everything,
Madrid is home to cutting-edge facilities,
devoted professionals, and modern
infrastructure, allowing you to easily adhere
to the most demanding standards of quality.
Furthermore, you will find a booming
culture, a thriving lifestyle, and warm, friendly,
passionate people. Madrid is a thriving cosmopolitan
city in which a perfect balance has been struck between
entertainment and business. Thanks to all this, the
EWMA 2014 conference promises to be a unique
experience.
The 2014 programme will offer guest sessions from several
organisations active in thematic issues related to wound
healing and management. Guest sessions include, among
others, a joint session between the European Pressure Ulcer
Advisory Panel (EPUAP) and EWMA, as well as sessions
by the Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association
(DEBRA), the European Society for Clinical
Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), the European Tissue
Repair Society (ETRS), and the Ibero-Latin American
Society of Ulcers and Wounds (SILAUHE).
The full-day streams are extremely popular among EWMA
conference delegates and will offer more in-depth presentations
and discussions within particular fields of knowledge.
At the EWMA-GNEAUPP 2014 full-day symposia, the
topics will be Diabetic Foot/Pie Diabetico Day, e-Health
Day, and Veterinary Wound Healing. In addition, a Spanish
Symposium will be offered at the conference.
DIABETIC FOOT DAY/PIE DIABETICO SYMPOSIUM
A key diabetic foot activity is the 1-day symposium scheduled
for Thursday, 15 May 2014. Current diagnostic and
intervention strategies for diabetic foot ulcers and amputation
prevention in Spain, which has one of the highest
amputation rates in people with diabetes, will be presented
and discussed. Multidisciplinary care by specialized units
has proved useful in preventing major amputations in
patients with complicated foot ulcers. However, major
challenges remain in establishing this model in Spain,
and some of these obstacles will be discussed at the symposium.
The symposium also offers the opportunity to
review state-of-the-art concepts and techniques within the
field of saving the diabetic foot through achieving better
treatment outcomes and health economic savings in
multidisciplinary treatment structures, as recommended
in the international consensus guidelines. On this occasion,
central stakeholders from the International Working
Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF), Spanish and international
diabetes organisations, as well as policymakers
and politicians, will participate in panel discussions and
presentations to discuss how current treatment plans are
conducted and to identify future strategies toward achieving
better standards of care for diabetic foot patients.
eHEALTH SYMPOSIUM – eHealth in wound care –
From pilot projects to routine care
More and more often, eHealth is being introduced as an
important means to solve the future challenges our health
care systems are facing. eHealth solutions are perceived as
essential tools to enable more care to be provided outside
of hospitals and to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration
and communication across units and sectors to optimise
continuity of care. The hope is that using these technologies
will lead to responsive care of higher quality at lower
WORKSHOPS
• Russian workshops
• Debridement
• Pain Management
• Challenges in Diagnosis
• Paediatric Patients
• Nutrition
• Maggot Therapy
• Diabetic Foot Wounds
• Biofilms
• Use of Information Technology
• Skin Complications
• Pressure Redistribution Devices
• Innovation with and for User Value Creation
• Trends in Healthcare
• Clinical Photography in Wounds
• Optimising the Performance of Postural Changes
• Lawsuits for Pressure Ulcers
EWMA Journal 2014 vol 14 no 1 81