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- Title
Wound management -- Part 3: bandaging complications.
- Authors
Calder, Caroline
- Abstract
This is the final article in a series of three individual wound management case studies. It covers one of the common complications that can occur following the application of long-term dressings -- decubitus ulcers ('pressure sores'). Ideally bandaging should be problem-free, but in reality pressure sores can, and do, occur. This raises issues on how to continue to manage the primary problem -- invariably a broken bone -- as well as dealing with the pressure sore. In this case, by the time the pressure sore had fully developed, the original injury had been managed; so the main focus could be switched to the pressure sore. The author has found that once the pressure is relieved, a dramatic improvement in the wound can be seen relatively quickly when moist wound management is implemented, as this article shows.
- Subjects
WOUND care; CASE studies; SURGICAL dressings; BEDSORES treatment; ULCERS
- Publication
Veterinary Nursing Journal, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 4, p121
- ISSN
1741-5349
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/vnj.12023