Imperial College London are conducting the DAVE study, an RCT to determine whether the use of a decellularised dermis (DCD) allograft in addition to compression therapy, promotes healing in chronic venous leg ulceration compared to compression therapy alone. Participants will be randomised to either compression therapy alone or DCD in addition to compression. Click here […]
Call for abstracts for #WREN2021 has been extended to 17 July 2021! Are you working on something you want to share or know someone who is doing great work? We would love to receive an abstract for the WReN 5th Scientific Meeting, which is taking place during TVS 2021 Virtual – The Conference, from the […]
Vascular James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Process Researchers are constantly trying to improve what is known about the best ways to treat people with vascular conditions. One of the problems with traditional approaches to medical research is that it often focuses on problems that doctors think are the most important. Quite often, these things […]
The VIRTUAL 5th EPUAP Focus Meeting 2021 is taking place on the 26 May in Sonderborg, Denmark The theme for the meeting is “Patient safety: Prevention and communication”, with programme highlights including: Patient safety: prevention and communication Quality management and patient safety “In safe hands”: The Sonderborg Concept From guideline to practice Health technologies at […]
Researchers at King’s College London are conducting a study to develop a manual to guide prevention and treatment of incontinence associated dermatitis (IAD) – sore skin as a result of urinary or faecal incontinence. If you have experienced or are experiencing incontinence (with or without IAD) or cared/care for someone with incontinence (with or without […]
The TVS, on behalf of the OUTPUTs project group (Prof Jane Nixon, Dr Susanne Coleman, Ms Delia Muir, Prof Katrin Balzer, Prof Jan Kottner and Ms Anna Lechner), would like to ask you to participate in a survey about what outcomes you think are most important in clinical pressure ulcer prevention research. Thereby you can […]
The NWCSP (National Wound Care Strategy) are looking to recruit two Clinical Workstream Leads, one for the Lower Limb Workstream and one for the Surgical Wound workstream, to join the programme team. Both posts will be 0.6 WTE for a fixed term of 12 months. Details can be found via the NWCSP website The closing […]
EPUAP FREE Webinar – Tuesday 8 December, 1630-1715 This webinar will consider epidemiological and biomechanical evidence in the development of an applied clinical conceptual framework for pressure ulcer development. It will go on to describe the application of these principles, through the development of a new generation Risk Assessment Instrument, PURPOSE-T for use in clinical […]
The Vascular Research Priority Setting Partnership wants to hear from people who have experience of any vascular condition. We also want to hear from carers and family members too. Get involved by completing the survey and help inform future research so that it focuses on what matters most to those accessing vascular services. This is […]
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded programme of work looking at the epidemiology, management and treatment of SWHSI is now published. Click here to read the report in full.