Preliminary Programme

 

The programme will consist of plenary sessions, key sessions, workshops and satellite symposia. The sessions will deal with advancement of education and research in relation to epidemiology, pathology, diagnosis, prevention and management of wounds.

Key sessions:

• Time to implement (opening plenary session)

• The value of health economics in Wound Healing

• Wound care concepts in countries with low resources, under the patronage of the WHO

• Vascular Ulcers

• Wound care in older people

• Wound Models

• Diabetic Foot Infection

• Pressure Ulcers – Guidelines

• Global relief and acute wound care in disrupted environments under the patronage of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Workshops

• Artificial skin

• Critical appraisal

• How to make a good case story

• How to make an oral presentation / poster presentation

• Partnership between patient and health care provider

• Atypical wounds

• Prevention and infection

• Cancer and wounds

• Compression

• Debridement

• Treatment Guideline (Clinical trials)

Swiss Symposium: Timing In Wound Care - Where It matters

Thursday 27 May 2010

The Swiss symposium will follow several time points of a patient's journey in four sessions and emphasize points, where timing matters. The four sessions will cover:

Time for diagnosis:

A diagnosis should always come first. Some important diagnoses must not be missed.

Time to deal with the wound

Insights into the psychosocial burden a chronic wound can be

Time to heal the wound

How to plan and implement the treatment

Time to be reimbursed:

How is wound care reimbursed in Switzerland and how can it be made more economical

 

The Swiss Symposium is organised by the Swiss Association for Wound Care (SAfW) and will be held on thursday 27 may 2010.

The symposium will be held in French and German only. Presentations held in German will be simultaneously translated into French and vice versa (no English translation).