Promoting research and raising awareness on social interaction and societal issues through video data

International audienceIn the last decades, Conversation Analysis has experienced an “embodied turn” (Nevile 2015): thanks to technological advancements, naturalistic video data have become more and more available, and the research focus has moved from verbal to multimodal interactions. As a result, researchers are nowadays faced to the use of video data, to their possible applications for teaching, professional training and research’s popularisation. The ICAR Lab has a long tradition in the study of social interaction and in collecting video corpora in naturally occurring settings. Through a large variety of projects, it has shared answers to methodological and deontological questions concerning fieldwork and technical aspects of video recording (see Jouin-Chardon et al. 2010). More recently, our research group produced short films for promoting our research activity and raising awareness about societal issues (Piccoli & Ursi 2015, DISAL project, REMILAS project). This contribution will relate our experience in film creation for such purposes. In a first project, three short films issued from three different corpora were produced. Initially designed as a feedback for participants, in an attempt to improve mutual professional relationship (see Baude et al. 2006), they also turned out to be a useful tool to teach the interactional approach and to promote research to a widespread audience. In another still on-going research on multilingual communication between healthcare providers and migrants in France (the REMILAS project), video data are used not only for scientific purposes, but also for healthcare professionals and interpreters’ training, as well as artistic initiatives aimed at promoting a more informed and active citizen participation to nowadays society

Use of Collagen Scaffolds in Conjunction with NPWT for the Care of Complex Wounds: Clinical Report

Open wounds treatment is very often a challenge for both the physician and patient. They require long term complex treatment with surgical debridement, dressing changing, additional therapies including expensive medication, with a high risk of failure. The most difficult to treat are the diabetic wounds and those that are associated with advanced arterial disease. In these special cases, the peripheral vascularization is severely impaired and the complications are imminent. Sixteen patients were selected from those appearing to our hospital departments of orthopedic and plastic surgery. Inclusion criteria included patients with a recurrent mixed fibrotic and granular wound base following trauma or diabetes, in which NPWT was indicated, without exclusion criteria. Patients enrolled were treated with regularly scheduled NPWT dressing change and using of a collagen scaffold. Patients were followed until healing, with visual representations of wound progression and time to full healing recorded. Both applications of these therapies appeared to accelerate the wound healing by clearing degenerative fibrous tissue and expediting wound granulation without additional complication. Some of the patients were healed partially and plastic surgery techniques were applied. Use of collagen scaffolds in conjunction with negative pressure wound therapy in the care of complex wounds is a reliable and effective method combining both the new granular tissue formation capacity of the scaffold to hold osteoblasts. In our experience, we have noticed that the patients benefit greatly when collagen scaffolds is combined with NPWT. It is our belief that this combination therapy combines the molecular clearing of non-viable collagen with the wound granulation necessary to advance complex wounds in healing