Wound bed preparation

Edited by
GW Cherry
KG Harding
TJ Ryan

Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the European Tissue Repair Society, through an education grant from Smith & Nephen, and held at St Anne's College & Green College, University of Oxford, UK
24-25 November 2000

Contents

1. Objectives of the meeting: is there a clinical problem?
   PROFESSOR TERENCE J RYAN, DR GEORGE W CHERRY AND PROFESSOR KEITH G HARDING

2. Wound fluid: an indicator of wound bed status
   DR RICHARD TAYLOR AND MR TIM JAMES

3. Matrix metalloproteinases, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases and wound bed status
   DR DAVID THOMAS

4. Is wound bed preparation assessable noninvasively?
   DR RAJ MANI

5. Specific paradigm for wound bed preparation in chronic wounds
   DR HAROLD BREM

6. What is the bacterial burden of the wound bed and does it matter?
   DR R GARY SIBBALD

7. Iodine therapy
   DR CARITA HANSON

8. Development of a new antiseptic for preparing wound beds
   DR JOSEPH SELKON AND MRS JANICE CAMERON

9. Sterile maggots and the preparation of the wound bed
   DR STEVE THOMAS

10. Wound bed preparation: a physician's clinical experience
    MRS JOANNA HILTON AND PROFESSOR KEITH G HARDING

11. Wound bed preparation: a plastic surgeon's clinical experience
    MR TIM GOODACRE

12. Surgical and sharp debridement
    DR LUC TÉOT

13. Wound bed status: a nurse's perspective
    MRS DEBORAH HOFMAN

14. Dressings and cleansers for wound bed preparation:
    a pharmacist's view on rationale and efficacy
    MRS DEBRA SIBBALD

15. Enzymatic debridement
    DR ULRICH E ZIEGLER

16. Autolytic debridement
    DR JAN R MEKKES

17. Vacuum-assisted closure for the treatment of difficult wounds
    DR LUC TÉOT

18. Preparing the wound bed for ski grafts and living ski equivalents
    DR R GARY SIBBALD

19. General discussion and consensus
    PROFESSOR KEITH G HARDING

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