Nordic Burn Meeting 2024

Pre-meeting for the Nordic authority and expert groups

08:30 - 12:00 Nordic Burn Preparedness Workshop
Session chairs: Steinar Olsen (NO) + Merete Ellefsen (NO) + Stian K. Almeland (NO)

08:30 - 08:45 Background and status of the "Nordic Mass Burn Casualty Incident Response Plan"
Steinar Olsen (NO) + Merete Ellefsen (NO)

08:45 - 09:15 Experiences with Nordic activations from each country - bottlenecks or gaps identified
Round table discussion

09:15 - 10:00 New scopes or strategies to be included in the Nordic burn response plan
Round table discussion

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break

10:15 - 10:25 Status of the European BMCI preparedness plans
Stian K. Almeland (NO)

10:25 - 11:15 National planning - strategies, experiences, and aims

National planning in Norway: Stian K. Almeland (10 min)
National planning in Finland: Veikko Schepel (10 min)
National planning in Denmark: Rikke Holmgaard (10 min)
National planning in Iceland: Gunnar Auðólfsson/Guðrún Lísbet Níelsdóttir (10 min)
National planning in Sweden: Fredrik Huss (10 min)

11:15 - 11:45 Brainstorming session

Authority group: Draft updates for lines of communication and SPOC for each country

Expert group: Draft updates on medical scope and guidelines

11:45 - 12:00 Summary and next steps
Steinar Olsen (NO) + Merete Ellefsen (NO) + Stian K. Almeland (NO)

Start of the regular program

11:00 - 12:00 Registration

12:00 - 13:00 Welcome lunch

13:00 - 13:10 Welcome and opening of the Nordic Burn Meeting 2024

13:10 - 14:40 Burn Surgery
Session Chairs: Stian K. Almeland (NO) + Rikke Holmgaard (DK)

13:10 - 13:20 Multiresistance in cross-border transfers: A case report from Copenhagen
Rikke Holmgaard (DK)

13:20 - 13:35 Problems with multiresistance in cross-border transfers - Nordic experiences with MedEvac
Moustafa Elmasry (SWE)

13:35 - 13:55 Multiresistance in burn care - current care strategies
Steven Wolf (US - video link)

13:55 - 14:10 Multiresistance challenges in today's patients
Marie Helleberg (DK)

14:10 - 14:40 Panel discussion
DK - SWE - FIN - NO

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 16:30 Wound care and nursing
Session chairs: Dorthe H. Hovland (NO) + Nina Solberg (NO) + Sissel Mellingen (NO)

15:00 - 15:10 Experiences with Ukrainian patients
Hogne Aarflot and Nicholas

15:00 - 16:30 Wound Care and Nursing
Session Chairs: Dorthe H. Hovland (NO) + Nina Solberg (NO) + Sissel Mellingen (NO)

15:00 - 15:10 Experiences with Ukrainian patients
Hogne Aarflot and Nicholas Thoresen (NO)

15:10 - 15:20 Face Injuries
Alice Rimmen (DK)

15:20 - 15:30 The Outpatient Clinic for Burns, with Case Presentation
Pia Tiimo (FIN)

15:30 - 15:40 The Burn Nurse Coordinator
Jenni Ahola (FIN)

15:40 - 15:50 Wound Care Classification
Anna Schildt (FIN)

15:50 - 16:00 The Newcomers Experience of a Burn Unit
Dennis Paul Ingvar Roth (NO)

16:00 - 16:10 Burn Camp
Anne Kari Knutsen (NO)

16:10 - 16:20 Burn Care Collaboration Between the Nordic Countries to Improve Education and Recruitment
Kalle Stoorhöök Waage (SWE) 

16:20 - 16:30 Establish a Nordic PAM?
Sigrid Brokke (NO)

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:30 Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
Session Chairs: Cathrine Sivertsen (NO) + Helene Løvaas (NO)

17:00 - 17:20 A Case Report Focused on Rehabilitation for a Young 35% TBSA Flame Burn Patient
Anna Mauno and Sonja Petterson (FIN)

17:20 - 17:30 Discussion/Summary

17:30 - 17:45 Rehabilitation and After Care
Hilde Holmefjord and Pål Skjold-Vermedal (NO)

17:45 - 18:00 Discussion/Summary

18:00 - 18:15 The Norwegian Association for Burns
Rune Kløvtveit (NO)

18:15 - 18:30 The Structure of Canadian Burn Care and Rehabilitation
Vince Gabriel (CAN)

09:00 - 11:00 Research - Oral presentations
(8 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
Session chairs: Nicolai Haase (DK) + Fredrik Huss (SWE)

09:00 - 09:13 Frostbite treatment protocol: An update
Andrew Lindford (FIN - video link)

09:13 - 09:26 Stem cells in acute burns
Filip Rangatchew (DK)

09:26 - 09:39 In vitro testing of spray delivery for MSCs
Astrid Bjørke Jenssen (NO)

09:39 - 09:52 Rodent model for vasopressors in early rescuscitation
Kristine Knappskog (NO)

09:52 - 10:05 Fatigue after Burn
Sara Enblom (SWE)

10:05 - 10:18 Relatives' experiences of the care period at a Burn center
Marie Linblad (SWE)

10:18 - 10:31 Photographs in burn patients diaries: A qualitative study of patients and nurses experices
Siri Daltveit (NO)

10:31 - 10:44 Management of bleeding in major burns
Harald Welling (DK)

10:44 - 10:57 Electrical burns in train climbers treated in the Helsinki Burn Centre during the past 30 years
Aliisa Korkiamäki (FIN)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:15 Research - Poster presentations
(4 min presentation + 3 min discussion)
Session chairs: Andrew Lindford (FIN) + Jennifer Drejøe (DK)

11:30 - 11:37 Networking Neighbours - The work within the Nordic Network for Burn Physio- and Occupational Therapist
Elin Sundin (SWE)

11:37 - 11:44 Facial Burns rehabilitation(?)
Cathrine Sivertsen (NO)

11:44 - 11:51 "Impaired infection control leading to an Acinetobacter Baumannii outbreak in a burn center"
Marie Linblad (SWE)

11:51 - 11:58 Patient pathways in Norwegian Burn Care
Ragnvald Ljones Brekke (NO)

11:58 - 12:05 Stem cells in burn scar treatment
Laura Hansen (DK)

12:05 - 12:12 Microsurgical reconstruction of 4th degree burn of knee region with fresh frozen extensor apparatus allograft (distal quadriceps - patella - tibial tendon) and coverage with a free latissimus dorsi flap
Jenni Vänskä (FIN)

12:15 - 13:30 Sponsor's session
Session chair: Stian K. Almeland (NO)

12:15 - 12:18 Sponsor presentation - MediWound
12:18 - 12:21 Sponsor presentation - Mölnlycke
12:21 - 12:24 Sponsor presentation - PolyMedics Innovations
12:24 - 12:27 Sponsor presentation - PolyNovo
12:27 - 12:30 Sponsor presentation - Avita Medical
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Intensive care and anesthesiolgy
Session chairs: Line Sørensen (NO) + Martin R. Vestergaard (DK)

13:30 - 14:15 Fluid resuscitation and deresuscitation
Christian Overgaard Steensen (DK)

14:15 - 14:35 The role of albumin in burn resuscitation
Joachim Zdolsek (SWE)

14:35 - 15:00 Discussion

15:00 - 15:15 NBM closing remarks