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 increase awareness around diabetic foot ulcer, its burden to the healthcare system and high mortality among patients affected by this severe condition. Host: Samantha Holloway, Reader and Programme Director in the Centre for Medical Education, School of Medicine based at the College of Life and Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University in the UK Guest: Paul Chadwick, Clinical Director at the College of Podiatry, Honorary Consultant Podiatrist Manchester, previously the Chair of Foot in Diabetes UK

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 Teacher Network Chair.

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 colleagues that might need help at the moment.

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 Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.