EPUAP 2024
24th Annual Meeting of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
25 - 27 September 2024
Lausanne, Switzerland
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Leading European event on pressure ulcer prevention and treatment for delegates from all over the world.
THEME: PRESSURE ULCERS – THE CLOCK IS TICKING!
Main topics:
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- Focus on multidisciplinarity and differential diagnosis
- Understand pressure ulcer aetiology
- Individualize pressure ulcer prevention: early identification of the risk factors and implementation of care plans
- Undertake pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence as quality of care and patient safety indicators
- Avoid device-related pressure ulcers in clinical setting
- Involve patients, families and caregivers in the prevention of pressure ulcers in the community
- Educate healthcare professionals, patients, families and caregivers
- Integrate artificial intelligence and new technologies in pressure ulcer prevention and treatment
- Move forward and rehabilitate (rehabilitation and neurorehabilitation)
- Prevent pressure ulcers in patients with comorbidities and rare diseases
- Innovate in pressure ulcer treatment
- Talk about cost effectiveness of pressure ulcer prevention
- Consider the impact of the 2025 Guidelines
Local organising committee
CONFERENCE CHAIR: Lucie Charbonneau, Assistant-lecturer, Advanced nurse practice in wound care, MSc; School of Health Sciences – HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland; President of the Swiss association for wound care – Swiss French section (SAfW-Romande)
Paul Bobbink, MScN, Lecturer; Geneva School of Health Sciences – HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
Laurent Chabal, BScN, ETN, Assistant lecturer; Geneva School of Health Sciences – HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland; WCET President
Dr. Mohamed Bouri, Scientist, group leader; EPFL-REHABAssist
Dr. Oliver da Silva-Kress, Physicist; University of Bern, Co-founder and CEO Sensawear
Prof. Sebastian Probst, Full Professor of Tissue Viability and Wound Care; Geneva School of Health Sciences – HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland; EWMA Immediate Past President
Dr. Anna-Barbara Schlüer, Advanced nurse practitioner pediatric care, Spitex, Bern; Advanced nurse practitioner pediatric nursing research, Inselspital, Bern
Key dates:
Registration opening
Abstract submission deadline
Abstract review notification
Early registration deadline
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