EUROPEAN  TISSUE  REPAIR  SOCIETY

PREPARATION OF THE WOUND BED
European Tissue Repair Society, Focus Meeting, 24–25 November 2000, St Anne’s College, Oxford

• Introduction
• Objectives of the Meeting
• Wound Fluid - An Indicator of Wound Bed Status
• Clinical Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP's) and TMP's in the status of the Wound Bed
• The status of the Wound Bed with Non-Invasive Measuring Techniques
• What is Bacerial Burden in the Wound Bed? Does it matter?
• The Nurses perspective of Wound Bed status
• Dressings and Cleansers for Wound Bed preparation; a Pharmacist's view on Rationale and Efficiency
• Iodine Therapy
• Development of new Antiseptic for preparing Wound Beds
• The use of Sterile Maggots in Modern Wound Management
• A Physicians Clinical Experience of Wound Bed preparation - What is Good Granulation Tissue?
• Surgical Debridement
• Enzymatic Debridement
• VAC (Vacuum Assisted Closure) for the Treatment of Difficult Wounds
• Debridgement
• Preparing the Wound Bed for Skin Grafts and Living Skin Equivalents