Dunedin

2, 3 & 4 November 2011

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Donald Maclellan (Australia)
Sue Templeton (Australia)
Associate Professor Bill McGuiness (Australia)

Conference Programme 2011 - Links to Presentations

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Wednesday 2 November

Keynote
Professor Donald MacLellan - Past, Present and Future.

Invited Speakers
Cathy Hammond & Pip Rutherford - Australia and New Zealand clinical practice guideline for prevention and management of venous leg ulcers.

Concurrent Sessions

Catherine Hammond, Pam Mitchell, Dawn Sutton, Rachael White, Graham McGeoch - The need for consistency: Use of health pathways to disseminate best practice.

Natalie Scott & Glenis Best - Evaluation of the establishment of a nurse-led specialist wound clinic located in a PHO.

Jan Weststrate - Using statistical process control methodology in monitoring the quality of care in pressure ulcer prevention.

Eric de Laat - Faster wound healing with topical negative pressure therapy in difficult to heal wounds: A prospective randomized controlled trial.

Diane Hishon - Improved topical negative therapy management and outcomes.

Eric de Laat - Vacuum assisted closure (vac) therapy is superior to conventional dressing therapies in patients with chronic wounds. A meta-analysis.

Keynote
Sue Templeton - Wound dressings: moving beyond the ingredient based paradigm.

Invited Speaker
Rachel Taylor - Team Manager, ACC Treatment Injury Team.

Invited Speaker
Katie Elkin, Chief Legal Advisor, Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner - A View from HDC "Telling the whole story about the patient".

Invited Speaker
Dr Jan Weststrate - Pressure ulcer prevention in New Zealand: are we meeting the standard?

Invited Speaker
Carol Tweed - Pressure ulcers... How? Why? Where? (references only).

Keynote
Assoc. Prof. Bill McGuiness - Introducing the pan pacific clinical practice guidelines for pressure ulcer prediction, prevention and management.

Thursday 3 November

Keynote
Prof. Donald MacLellan - Multidisciplinary teams in wound healing - opportunities and challenges.

Keynote
Assoc. Prof. Bill McGuiness - Common wounds in general practice.

Concurrent sessions

Theme: Dressing innovations

Heidi Darcy - Immune stimulating properties of medical grade honey.

Sharon Cassidy - A new Keratin dressing product: positive results for Epidermolysis Bullosa patients.

Miranda Bűhler - The use of silicone oil for wound healing in a finger crush injury: A case study.

K V Diggelmann, A E Zytkovicz, J M Tuaine, N C Bennett, L E Kelly, & P M Herst - Mepilex Lite dressings for the management of radiation-induced erythema: a systematic inpatient controlled clinical trial.

Theme: Holistic care and chronic wounds

Susie Wendelborn - Putting together the holistic puzzle to treat two different diabetic leg and foot ulcerations.

Lara Benoiton - Assessment and management of leg ulcers in the community and an outpatient clinic.

Mandy Pagan & Jo Hunter - Lower leg haematomas: A potential for complications in the elderly.

Workshops - 1
1. ABC of leg ulcers - Sue Templeton
2. Managing skin tears - Rachael White
3. Wound measurement for clinical practice - Cathy Hammond
4. Plastic surgery - Burns - Margaret Conaglen
5. Mapping surface interface pressures - Pen Walkinshaw

Workshops - 2
1. Offloading diabetic foot ulcers using total contact casts - Emil Schmidt
2. Topical negative pressure therapy - practical skills - Pam Mitchell
3. Laval therapy - practical application - Yvonne Denny
4. Plastic surgery - skin grafts - Margaret Conaglen
5. Conservative sharp debridement - Pip Rutherford (& Co.)

Friday 4 November

Keynote
Sue Templeton - Managing complex wounds in the community setting.

Invited Speaker
Mandy Pagan - The Southland Snail.

Keynote
Assoc. Prof. Bill McGuiness - Effective use of photographic images in remote wound assessment.