Pressure Ulcers: The Flourishing of Science to Support Prevention and Healing

• Redefining pressure ulcers;
• Pressure ulcer risk assessment tools - friend or foe?
• How do cells deform, and how might that relate to pressure ulcers?
• Optical and nano approaches in wound healing;
• Pressure ulcers and dementia- is there a relationship?
• Why should we assess pain in pressure ulcers?
• Electrical stimulations to prevent pressure ulcers;
• Animal models of spinal cord injury and their application to understand biomechanical changes occurring in deep tissue injury;
• Electrotactile biofeedback systems for preventing pressure ulcers;
• Repositioning in pressure ulcer prevention and management;
• What is different about heels: a review of the anatomy of the heel compared to other body sites and photographic evidence of the progress of the ulcers.