3M Survey Provides Insight into Simplifying Wound Care Practices
3M Health Care (St. Paul, Minn) recently sponsored a survey of wound care clinicians. The survey, conducted by HMP Communications (Malvern, Pa), the publisher of ECPN, Ostomy Wound Management, and WOUNDS, showed that selecting the most cost-effective wound dressing and managing exudate are the biggest issues a clinician faces when treating a wound. The survey results offer insight into the most significant issues wound care providers face and ways to simplify the job of wound care for clinicians.
Choosing the appropriate wound care products is important to simplifying care. When considering product choice for optimal wound care, the survey showed:
• Nearly 70% of respondents feel that in terms of simplifying the job of wound care, it is extremely important to have compatible products available that work well together
• 34% reported they sometimes find it confusing to choose the right product for a patient
• Nearly 94% consider effectiveness to be extremely important when choosing a product
• More than 90% believed it was extremely or somewhat important to trust in the company that makes a wound care product they use.
In addition, the survey showed that wound care providers view the availability of cutting-edge products as important to simplifying wound care. More than 97% responded it is important or extremely important that wound dressings incorporate the latest in wound care technologies and more than 90% said that, in general, it is important or extremely important that wound dressings are based on cutting-edge technology.
The survey findings show that successful wound care depends most importantly on clinically effective and cost-efficient, state-of-the-art, compatible products that enable clinicians to focus on successful patient outcomes.
Visit http://www.3m.com/tegaderm for more information. European Tissue Repair Society Hosts 16th Annual Meeting The European Tissue Repair Society (ETRS) Annual meeting will be held in Pisa, Italy, September 13–16, 2006. The theme of the conference will be “Innovation in Tissue Repair: From the Lab to the Patient.” The conference will cover such topics as angiogenesis, biofilms, stem cells, tissue engineering, and much more.
The meeting will be preceded by a 1-day event organized by the ETRS that will address all aspects regarding “How to become a wound healer.” Within the ETRS scientific program, delegates will be able to explore topics in a wide range of educational events, from plenary sessions to workshops, and satellite symposia. Several sessions will include presentations from young investigators who will participate in the ETRS awards contest.
Social events included in the registration fee are a welcome reception on Wednesday and a special evening and gala dinner including entertainment on Friday.
The ETRS is a non-profit organization founded in 1988. The society aims to promote knowledge and interchange between scientists, healthcare professionals, industry, and other individuals that have an interest in comprehensive tissue repair.
Visit http://www.etrs.org/pisa for more information.
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