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ORAL PRESENTATIONS
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EWMA Honorary Lecture
HONORARY LECTURER OF THE EWMA CONFERENCE 2013 COPENHAGEN:
FINN GOTTRUP
Prof. Gottrup is the author of more than 400 publications, and has lectured extensively
on clinical and experimental wound healing, wound infections, tissue perfusion, and
oxygenation, within EWMA and to provide education in wound healing and treatment. He
is recognised by a wide range of professions as Denmark’s leading expert on wounds.
Prof. Gottrup is member of several national and international boards, committees, and
editorial boards, an energetic lecturer of medical educations, and a regular speaker at
international conferences, where he is appreciated for his high-quality presentations and
broad knowledge of wound healing. In 1991, Prof. Gottrup was awarded the world’s first
professorship in wound healing and he became professor of Surgery at University of
Southern Denmark in 2003.
Finn Gottrup has earned this distinction due to his committed life work within wound
healing. This includes his greatly appreciated involvement in the EWMA Council as
president, past president, recorder, and Council member and his capacity as founder
and long-serving president for this year’s local organiser, the Danish Wound Healing
Society, one of oldest national wound management organisations in the world.
Finn Gottrup started the Copenhagen Wound Healing Center in 1996, and in 2003, was
involved in establishing the University Center for Wound Healing in Odense, Denmark.
These wound healing centres have been a prime force behind Denmark’s status among
the world leaders in wound management. Prof. Gottrup was head of the centres from
1996-2003 and 2003-2007, respectively. Presently, he is professor of surgery and
consultant at Copenhagen Wound Healing Center.
KEY SESSION: NUTRITION IN WOUND CARE
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Key Session: Nutrition in Wound Care
Nutritional status: assessment and risk stratification
Alessandro Laviano 1
1 Department of Clnical Medicine, Sapienza Unversity (Rome, Italy).
Malnutrition is a risk factor for the development of pressure sores and negatively impacts
on wound healing. Therefore, it is clinically relevant assessing nutritional status of
patients and individuals living in the community, in order to precisely evaluate the risk of
developing complications, including wound dehiscence and pressure sores.
Unfortunately, the importance of nutritional assessment is rarely considered in hospitals,
nursing homes and in the community. In patients and individuals living in the community,
nutritional status can be assessed and/or screened. Nutritional assessment is a complex
procedure which requires specific expertise in evaluating the status of body
compartments. On the other hand, nutritional screening is a simpler procedure, which is
based on few information which can be easily obtained in all patients and individuals.
Therefore, nutritional risk screening is a procedure which can be completed by personnel
without specific expertise in clinical nutrition. It is now widely demonstrated that
nutritional risk screening is effective in improving nutritional care and clinical outcome of
patients, when implemented. Unfortunately, nutritional risk screening is not a procedure
frequently included in the admission protocols to hospital and nursing homes. To
contribute to the prevention of the development of impaired wound healing and/or
pressure sores, nutritional risk screening should be implemented in every clinical setting
worldwide.
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