EWMA Podcasts

This episode is created as part of the EWMA Toolkit project on Prevention of pressure ulcer/injury recurrence in patients with spinal cord injuries. The podcast explores the ethical principles that shape prevention and management, including autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. The expert panel discusses how these principles guide day-to-day decisions: - balancing patient autonomy wi...

This episode is created as part of the EWMA Toolkit project on Prevention of pressure ulcer/injury recurrence in patients with spinal cord injuries. The discussion highlights how laws, national guidelines and institutional standards influence clinical practice and patient rights. Key points include: - the necessity of thorough documentation as legal evidence of care delivered - managing informed c...

In this episode you can listen to a conversation between EWMA podcast host Samantha Holloway and two prominent figures in the field of wound management education; Professor Sebastian Probst and Professor Madeleine Flanagan. The major question addressed in this episode is what challenges and goals wound education has faced in the past 30 years? While wound management education has developed signifi...

In this episode, you can listen to a conversation between EWMA Podcast host Samantha Holloway and two prominent figures in the field of wound management; Professor Christine Moffatt and Professor Alberto Piaggesi. The major question addressed in this episode is how did the crisis change wound management across Europe? Thus, the episode takes on the contemporary crisis of Covid-19 and the pandemic’...

In this episode, you can listen to a conversation between EWMA Podcast Host Samantha Holloway and two key figures in the fields of Dermatology and wound management; Dr. Kirsi Isoherranen and Dr. Severin Läuchli. The episode follows the first episode's focus on the historical development of EWMA but narrows the temporal scope to consider the past five years. Changes are evident from both the major...

In this episode, you can listen to a conversation between EWMA Podcast Host Samantha Holloway and two key figures in wound healing coming out of Scandinavia; Professor Finn Gottrup and Professor Jan Apelqvist. The discussion initiates this season's focus on the historical development of EWMA since its inception in 1991. The major question addressed in this episode is what has changed in wound mana...

In this episode, you can listen to a conversation between the EWMA Podcast Host Samantha Holloway and Dr Athanasios Hassoulas, director of the MSc in Psychiatry programme and Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine at Cardiff University. They will talk about the meaning and impact of patient engagement and empowerment in relation to diabetes and diabetic foot ulcer management. The podcast provid...

Listen to this episode and dive into the recent trends and developments linked to the prevention of diabetic foot ulceration. Jaap van Netten (Netherlands), Peter Lazzarini (Australia) and Samantha Holloway (UK) talk about key elements in supporting the prevention of diabetic foot ulcer and keeping patients with ulcers in remission. You can also learn more about how you can create positive goals t...

This new EWMA DFU podcast episode is devoted to the management of diabetic foot ulcer in a multidisciplinary team. Samantha Holloway and Paul Chadwick discuss the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration in the management of diabetic foot and how non-specialist healthcare professionals could also be engaged in the prevention of diabetic foot ulcer. They also touch upon the key strategies to i...

Alberto Piaggesi, EWMA President, introduces the new season in the first episode. By listening to this podcast you can learn about: - why EWMA brings more focus to diabetic foot disease and ulceration - how DFU could be addressed by healthcare professionals, researchers, patients, and individuals working within the industry The host of the podcast is Samantha Holloway, EWMA Education Committee and...

What recommendations would you give for cleaning lesions caused by PPE? Which kind of dressings should healthcare professionals be using as a preventive measure for PPE? Podcast host: Samantha Holloway, Speakers: Elena Conde Montero, Karen Ousey and Kimberley LeBlanc.

In this short emergency episode of the EWMA podcasts, Julie Jordan O’Brien talks about how to help wound care patients during the COVID-19 and how a healthcare professional (HCP) can change a dressing in a home care setting. This episode might be especially helpful for HCPs who are not specialized in wound care. You can listen to this 6 minutes podcast or share a PDF with its script with your coll...

In this episode, Samantha Holloway and Karen Ousey discuss the principles of AMS in wound management and how to implement those in clinical practice. Holloway and Ousey emphasize that an interdisciplinary approach to AMS is essential in slowing the growth of resistant bacteria. They also touch upon the importance of professional education in AMS among healthcare professionals.

In this episode, Samantha Holloway, Chair of the EWMA Education Committee and Teacher Network, talks to EWMA Council member, Kirsi Isoherranen, Specialist in Dermatology, HUS Helsinki Wound Healing Centre in Finland. She is also the editor of the recent EWMA Document on Atypical wounds. They talk about Atypical wounds and what wound management practitioners should know about these types of wounds.

Georgina Gethin discusses with the podcast host, Julie Jordan O’Brien, what person-centred care is and why it is so important in wound management. By listening to this episode, you can learn more about the benefits of shared decision-making between the patient and clinicians in wound management and get some practical support in implementing it.

In the second episode of the EWMA podcasts, Samantha Holloway, Chair of the EWMA Education Committee and Teacher Network, speaks to Sebastian Probst and Ida Verheyen-Cronau about the standardisation of the wound education in Europe. Both podcast guests shares their experience in implementation of the EWMA level 5 and 6 post-registration curricula for nurses in Switzerland and Germany.

In this episode of the EWMA podcasts, Julie Jordan O’Brien and David Armstrong discuss current challenges and opportunities in the management and prevention of diabetic foot ulcers. Jordan O’Brien is a former EWMA Council member who works as an advanced nurse practitioner in plastic surgery at Beaumont Hospital, in Ireland. Armstrong is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Southwestern Academi...