9th National Australian Wound Management Association Conference (AWMA 2012)

Key Topics

• Aging issues
• Acute wounds
• Complex wounds
• Bariatric challenges
• Interdisciplinary approach / team work
• Diabetic neuropathic foot wounds / ulceration
• Lower limb ulceration
• Legal & ethical practice / human rights in wound management
• Mechanisms of normal and abnormal wound repair
• Lymphoedema
• Natural therapies
• Mentoring in wound management
• Palliative wound management (malignant / unhealable)
• Negotiating funding for wound management projects
• Pressure injury
• Patient / consumer education and innovation
• Skin related issues (dermatological issues / erysipelas vs cellulitis / radionecrosis etc)
• Person perspective / Quality of life / Well being
• Wound bed preparation
• Volunteering in wound management
• Wound therapeutics

National Australian Wound Management Association Conference (AWMA) brings together Medical, Nursing, Emergency personnel, Allied Health, Academics and researchers.