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The EWMA Journal ISSN number: 1609-2759 Volume 8, No 3, October, 2008 Electronic Supplement October 2008: www.ewma.org The Journal of the European Wound Management Association Published three times a year Editorial Board Carol Dealey, Editor Deborah Hofman, Editor Electronic Supplement Michelle Briggs Finn Gottrup E. Andrea Nelson Marco Romanelli Zbigniew Rybak Peter Vowden EWMA web site www.ewma.org Editorial Office please contact: EWMA Business Office Congress Consultants Martensens Allé 8 1828 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. Tel: (+45) 7020 0305 Fax: (+45) 7020 0315 ewma@ewma.org Layout: Birgitte Clematide Printed by: Kailow Graphic A/S, Denmark Copies printed: 13,000 Prices: Distributed free of charge to members of the European Wound Management Association and members of co-operating associations. Individual subscription per issue: 7.50€ Libraries and institutions per issue: 25€ The next issue will be published January 2009. Prospective material for publication must be with the editors as soon as possible and no later than 1 November 2008 The contents of articles and letters in EWMA Journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Editors or the European Wound Management Association. Copyright of all published material and illustrations is the property of the European Wound Management Association. However, provided prior written consent for their reproduction obtained from both the Author and EWMA via the Editorial Board of the Journal, and proper acknowledgement and printed, such permission will normally be readily granted. Requests to reproduce material should state where material is to be published, and, if it is abstracted, summarised, or abbreviated, then the proposed new text should be sent to the EWMA Journal Editor for final approval. 2 Paulo Alves Severin Läuchli EWMA Council Marco Romanelli President Salla Seppänen José Verdú Soriano Rita Videira Peter Vowden CO-OPERATING ORGANISATIONS’ BOARD Pauline Beldon, UK Andrea Bellingeri, Italy Saša Borović, Serbia Rosine van den Bulck, Belgium Mike Clark, UK Mark Collier, UK Rodica Crutescu, Romania Bülent Erdogăn, Turkey Milada Francu, Czech Republicl Kiro Georgievski, Macedonia Georgina Gethin, Ireland Finn Gottrup, Denmark João Gouveia, Portugal Editorial Board Members Carol Dealey, UK (Editor) Michelle Briggs, UK Finn Gottrup, Denmark Deborah Hofman, UK E. Andrea Nelson, UK Marco Romanelli, Italy Zbigniew Rybak, Poland Peter Vowden, UK Sue Bale Recorder Jan Apelqvist Maarten J. Lubbers For contact information, see www.ewma.org Luc Gryson Treasurer Carol Dealey EWMA Journal Editor Sylvie Meaume Luc Gryson, Belgium Marcus Gürgen, Norway Mária Hok, Hungary Gabriela Hösl, Austria Dubravko Huljev, Croatia Hunyadi János, Hungary Arkadiusz Jawień, Poland Els Jonckheere, Belgium Aníbal Justiniano, Portugal Susan Knight, UK Martin Koschnik, Germany Jozefa Koskova, Slovak Republic Aleksandra Kuspelo, Latvia Ton Lassing, the Netherlands EWMA Journal Scientific Review Panel Paulo Jorge Pereira Alves, Portugal Caroline Amery, UK Mark Collier, UK Bulent Erdogan, Turkey Madeleine Flanagan, UK Milada Francu˚, Czech Republic Peter Franks, UK Luc Gryson, Belgium Gabriela Hösl, Austria Zoltán Kökény, Hungary Zena Moore Secretary Finn Gottrup E. Andrea Nelson Marcus Gürgen Patricia Price Goran Lazovic, Serbia Christina Lindholm, Sweden Magnus Löndahl, Sweden Sandi Luft, Slovenia Kestutis Maslauskas, Lithuania Sylvie Meaume, France Karl-Christian Münter, Germany Guðbjörg Pálsdóttir, Iceland Alessandro Scalise, Italy Salla Seppänen, Finland José Verdú Soriano, Spain Anne Wilson, UK Carolyn Wyndham-White, Switzerland Skender Zatriqi, Kosova Zena Moore, Ireland Karl-Christian Münter, Germany Pedro L. Pancorbo-Hidalgo, Spain Patricia Price, UK Rytis Rimdeika, Lithuania Salla Seppänen, Finland José Verdú Soriano, Spain Rita Gaspar Videira, Portugal Carolyn Wyndham-White, Switzerland Gerald Zöch, Austria EWMA Journal 2008 vol 8 no 3
3 Editorial Carol Dealey Science, Practice and Education 5 Eucomed – Advanced Wound Care Sector (AWCS). Positioning of advanced wound care Hans Lundgren 11 A Laboratory Survey of the Antimicrobial Properties of Honey-Containing Dressings Rowena Jenkins 17 Topical negative pressure versus conventional treatment of deep sternal wound infection in cardiac surgery Martin Šimek 23 Quality of Life in the Patients with Chronic Leg Ulcers – A Preliminary Report Veronika Slonkova 25 Compression therapy for venous leg ulcers – how to get more value for money Susan F. Jørgensen EBWM 32 Abstracts of recent Cochrane Reviews Sally Bell-Syer EWMA 38 EWMA Journal Previous Issues 38 International Journals 40 The EWMA University Conference Model: Lessons learned from Lisbon Zena Moore 42 EWMA2008 First Time presenter 44 EWMA Travel Grants 47 EWMA 2008 – a very successful conference in Lisbon! Finn Gottrup 52 EWMA Corporate Sponsor Contact Data 54 WUWHS 2008 Marco Romanelli Conferences 56 Conference Calendar Organisations 57 ICW-activities 58 Cooperating Organisations 59 Associated Organisations Dear Reader It seems no time since we were anticipating the EWMA Conference in Lisbon, closely followed by the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) meeting in Toronto. It is fair to say that both meetings were very successful and provided great opportunities to make contact with colleagues in other countries to discuss wound care issues. One of the things that stood out for me in Lisbon was the excitement of the students involved in the University Conference Model. Most students attending a university course at whatever level do not get the chance to attend a local conference as part of their course, let alone an international one. So this opportunity which allowed them to hear a considerable number of internationally renowned speakers as well as getting to know students from other countries is unparalleled. For those of you who are not quite sure what the EWMA University Conference Model actually is, there are more details in Zena Moore’s report on pages 40-41. However, the short answer is that a participating university running a wound management course uses the conference to form one of their modules. The course leader selects relevant lectures, free papers and workshops and so on for the students so that they fulfill the specific requirements of their course. The course leader and students meet regularly throughout the conference to discuss what they have learnt. Needless to say, the conference is a lot of hard work for the course leaders! Moving onto the WUWHS meeting, we have a formal report from the meeting on page 54. In addition, I would like to give my personal congratulations to three of EWMA’s Past Presidents who were presented with Life Time Achievement Awards at the conference. They were Christine Moffat, George Cherry and Finn Gottrup. They have all made major contributions to wound healing and management in their different ways over the years as well as to EWMA and it was very nice to see this being recognized at the meeting. This issue of the Journal has our usual mixture of scientific papers, reports and news items. We also have something completely new in the Electronic Supplement: papers from the Polish journal “Leczenie Ran” (Wound Management) translated into English. Although we have occasionally translated a paper into English so it can be shared with a wider audience, this is the first time that we have had a collection of papers translated. The purpose is to showcase some of the research and developments in wound healing being undertaken in one country and only published in the language of that country. It allows our readership to learn more about the country in relation to wound management and gives the research greater exposure. We intend to dedicate one electronic supplement a year to this venture, utilizing interested journals of EWMA’s Cooperating Organisations. I am indebted to Deborah Hofman, the Electronic Supplement Editor, for her hard work in facilitating the selection process, checking the translations and so on. Deborah selected 10 abstracts of papers relevant to the EWMA Journal published over the last two years. They were then read by the Editorial Board who selected the best five papers for the Supplement. We welcome any comments from readers on this venture. Another new venture that is discussed within the pages of this issue is the formation of an Advanced Wound Care Sector (AWCS) within the European Medical Technology Association (EUCOMED). As can be seen in the paper by Hans Lundgren, this is an interesting new venture to try and raise awareness of the burden of chronic wounds within the European Union. EWMA is an active partner in this project and it is only by developing this type of collaborative partnership with the wound care industry that we can hope to get chronic wounds onto the agenda in Brussels. A number of unsuccessful initiatives have been undertaken over the years with much the same goals. However, AWCS has a carefully planned strategy which would seem to have a greater potential for success. I know that I have written optimistically in the past about the possibility of the European Commission funding research in wound healing and wound management and never seen my hopes materialize, but maybe, just maybe, this new venture will be successful and we will be able to undertake some of the large multi-centre studies that are necessary to provide us the type of evidence we need to support our clinical practice. Carol Dealey EWMA Journal 2008 vol 8 no 3 3
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