LINK for Wound Balance Congress 2023

- DateAndTime
- –
- Location
- Barcelona
- Organization
- HARTMANN (in partnership with Wounds International)
This document aims to answer the call from WHO in developing resources for clinicians in Palliative Care (PC) and will review each of these wound-related symptoms as well as provide clinicians a set of up-to-date recommendations for practice. For this document, we will refer to palliative wound care (PWC) as an umbrella term to represent the three categories of wounds requiring a palliative approach:
Palliative wound care focuses on symptom management rather than healing, addressing pain, odour, exudate, bleeding, and itching to improve patient comfort and quality of life. The WHO highlights a significant gap in palliative care access, making structured guidelines essential. A new European Task Force definition emphasizes holistic, interdisciplinary, and patient-centred care, applicable to wounds that may heal, may not heal, or are too burdensome to treat. This document provides evidence-based recommendations for managing wound-related symptoms in palliative settings.
The European Wound Management Association (EWMA) developed this document to provide evidence-based recommendations for HCPs managing wound-related symptoms in palliative care.
The following recommendations are targeted at clinicians, educators, policy makers and industry: