EUROPEAN PRESSURE ULCER ADVISORY PANEL

The sixth open meeting of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Budapest, Hungary and will continue to build on the success of the panel's previous annual meetings. The mandate of the panel relates solely to pressure ulcers and this allows a focused approach as well as an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge with others working actively in this field.

The theme of this year's meeting is 'Pressure Ulcers - a quality of care indicator?' As at past meetings, this will allow professional health workers an excellent opportunity to improve their knowledge and understanding of the management and prevention of pressure ulcers. In addition there will be an update of the latest research into pressure ulcers included in the programme.

Well known speakers from throughout Europe and the rest of the world will be covering topics on this year's theme as well as other related aspects of pressure ulcers. In addition to the main theme - 'Pressure Ulcers - a quality of care indicator?', updates on risk factors and risk assessments and ulcer stage reassessment will be presented along with new developments in pressure ulcer management. Free papers will be included in the relevant sessions. Poster presentations will be displayed throughout the meeting and there will be an opportunity for poster presenters to briefly summarize their posters orally. Attendance at the Budapest meeting will allow delegates to take part in shaping the future of pressure ulcer care.

Budapest (above), the venue of this year's meeting, is one of the most beautifully situated cities in Europe. The broad Danube river runs though the middle of the city and the Danube panorama has been declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A number of pre-congress and post-congress tours are offered.

The congress will be held in the Hilton Hotel, overlooking the river and city. The scientific programme will be held in the congress facilities of the Hilton Hotel. The 'Life-time Achievement award' for work related to pressure ulcers will be presented to the recipient at the congress dinner.

The provisional up-to-date programme is as follows:

Wednesday, 18th September

Hungarian Pressure Ulcer Meeting
(Official language Hungarian)

EWMA / EPUAP Joint Educational Session

Thursday, 19th September

Morning: Satellite meetings
Smith & Nephew 'Bacteria in pressure ulcers - the role of silver versus traditional antimicrobial'
Nutricia 'Treating pressure ulcers from the inside out'

Lunch and poster presentation/viewing

• Welcome and Introduction
  (Laszlo Gulacsi and Marco Romanelli).
  Chair: Marco Romanelli
• What do we mean by quality in pressure ulcer prevention and treatment?
  (Denis Colin, Laszlo Gulacsi and Agnes Jacquerye)
• European Survey of Quality Measurement in Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment
  (Marco Romanelli)
• Measuring how pressure ulcers affect quality of life
  (Trish Price)

Coffee and poster presentation

Chair: Michael Clark and Denis Colin

• Improving outcomes at the bedside.
  (Harold Brem)
• Quality in North America, views of the NPUAP
  (Courtney Lyder)
• Pressure ulcers in Japan
  (Prof Ohura)
• Presentation of EPUAP Lifetime achievement award.
• Presentation by Lifetime achievement recipient.
• Close of day and welcome reception with Hungarian entertainment

Friday, 20th September

• The Hip - Anatomy
  (Prof Karl-GoranThorngren, Sweden)
• Hip Fractures
  Chair: Christina Lindholm and Gerry Bennett
• The Hip -
  Aetiology and Prevention including case studies
  (Ami Hommel, Sweden)
• Results from the PEPUS survey
  (Christina Lindholm)

Coffee and poster viewing

• New Dutch pressure ulcer guidelines -
  PARALLEL FREE PAPER SESSION
  1. Maarten Lubbers 2. Ronald Boumans
  Chair: Sue Bale
• EPUAP Strategic review feedback
  (Keith Harding)

Lunch and AGM

• PARALLEL FREE PAPER SESSION
  Chair: Maarten Lubbers
• Prevalence group
  Chairs: George Cherry and Courtney Lyder
• EPUAP Prevalence survey
• Interpreting prevalence and incidence data - what can be achieved in the real world? (Jacqui Fletcher)
• The project methodology
  (Gerrie Bours)
• What was it like for you? Experience of the data collectors
  (Alison Hopkins)

Coffee and poster presentations

• EPUAP Pressure Ulcer Prevalence project: The project results (Tom Defloor)
  Chair: Keith Harding
• Pressure ulcers in Spain
  (Joan-Enric Torra i Bou)
• EPUAP statement on incidence monitoring
  (Gerrie Bours / Lisette Schoonhaven,
  led by Keith Harding)
• PLENARY LECTURE
  Case mix Adjustment - ideal and practical limitations
  (Dan Berlowitz, US)*
• Conference dinner and entertainment, and awards presentation

Saturday, 21st September

Chairs: Tom Defloor and Alastair McLeod

• Support Surface Working Group Feedback
  (Alastair McLeod)
• Evaluation of mattresses replacements for routine use in a Large General Hospital
  (Anne Witherow)
• Prone position and pressure ulcers; State of the Art
  (Camles Calaf and Joan-Enric Torra i Bou)
• Risk factors for pressure ulcers
  Chair: Tom Defloor
• Predicting pressure ulcers in hospitalised patients
  (Lisette Schoonhaven)
• Prognostic factors associated with pressure ulcer development in surgical patients.
  (Jane Nixon)
• Non-blanchable erythema as a predictor of pressure ulcer lesions: an alternative approach to risk assessment
  (Katrien Vanderwee)

Chairs: Marco Romanelli and Helvi Hietanen

Coffee

• Report on Central European Day 18 September 2002
  (Laszlo Gulacsi)
• President's Address
  (Marco Romanelli)
• Presentation of Poster Prizes
  (Denis Colin)
• Introduction to the 7th EPUAP Open Meeting 2003, Tampere, Finland
  (Helvi Hietanen)
• End of conference, closing reception and farewell
• Free papers
  Chaired by Mark Collier

Saturday afternoon - Tours of Budapest

Fishermen's Bastion and the Danube, viewed from the conference hotel

EPUAP activities to watch out for! Over the coming months the EPUAP, and this Review, will present several major developments! Of course, one of these will be the Budapest Conference, held at the Budapest Hilton Hotel between September 18th and 21st 2002. The programme for this event is close to complete and is shown here. This issue of the EPUAP Review contains information upon registration for this event. The EPUAP would like to thank all of its corporate sponsors -without your support it would be so much harder to organise our annual meeting. We would also like to thank those companies - Nutricia, and Smith & Nephew Ltd - who are hosting satellite meetings during the morning of 19 September. Please support these educational events!