EWMA Council

3 Editorial
Peter J Franks
Scientific Articles
7 Is it safe to use saline solution to clean wounds?
João Carlos Gouveia, Christina Miguens
15 The cost of pressure ulceration
Peter J Franks
21 Epidemiology of wounds treated in
Community Services in Portugal
Elaine Pina
29 Improving wound assessment through
the provision of digital cameras across
a Primary Care Trust
Alison Hopkins
Background Articles
35 The use of telemedicine in wound care
Rolf Jelnes
39 Lord Joseph Lister: the rise of antiseptic
surgery and the modern place of antiseptics
in wound care
David Leaper
EBWM
44 Abstracts of recent Cochrane Reviews
Sally Bell-Syer
EWMA
48 EWMA Position Document 2007:
Topical Negative Pressure in Wound
Management
Christine Moffatt
50 EWMA Journal previous issues
50 International Journals
52 EWMA Corporate Sponsors contact data
Conferences
54 Conference calendar
Organisations
55 The XIth Finnish National Wound Management
Conference, 1-2 February 2007 in Helsinki
Salla Seppänen
56 The SSiS is an association for registered nurses
with a professional interest in wounds
Christina Lindholm
57 What’s new in Slovenia?
Helena Kristina Peric
58 Co-operating Organisations
EWMA Journal 2007 vol 7 no 2
EWMA
is more than a conference
As my time as president comes to a close I wish to reflect back on
my time, to see where EWMA has come from and to look to the
future of EWMA and its activities.
For those who may not be familiar with the history of the organisation,
EWMA was founded at a meeting in Cardiff in 1991, “to promote advancement
of education and research into native epidemiology, pathology,
diagnosis, prevention and management of wounds of all aetiologies”. For
the first 10 years, it undertook an annual meeting held each year mainly
in Harrogate, organised by Macmillan (then EMAP). However in 2000,
we had the opportunity of developing our own way forward. The EWMA
Council elected to work to develop their own meetings, and contracted
Congress Consultants to organize our meetings, starting in Stockholm.
While this was a time of great change, the model we now have has become
so robust that other societies are adopting many of the innovations
developed since that time. It is a great testimony to the past presidents,
Council members and other supporters that EWMA is the organization
it is today.
It is difficult to identify all the innovations that have taken place, but one
of the areas that deserve specific mention is the development of the Cooperating
Organizations which currently number 38 national organizations
in 29 countries. Indeed EWMA has been instrumental in helping to
establish wound organizations in countries that previously did not have
one. EWMA today is widely acknowledged as the umbrella organization
that brings together these organizations and represents them on a European
level. We will be seeking to develop this representation further with
closer ties with Eucomed, an organization that represents the wound care
industry in the EU.
Other developments of note include the EWMA publications. The EWMA
Journal is now in its seventh year, and provides an opportunity to present
original research as well as reports from the national societies. It is a testament
to Carol Dealey and her team that the journal is now indexed in
CINAHL. Interest in EWMA journal has never been higher and we receive
many approaches from companies, authors and even publishing houses,
who are interested in publishing EWMA Journal.
Our other voice is through the Position Documents. The original concept
of Christine Moffatt, these papers have set a high standard and achieved
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