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Nursing treatment of patients with chronic leg ulcers in the community
Author(s) -
ROE B.H.,
GRIFFITHS J.M.,
KENRICK M.,
CULLUM N.A.,
BUTTON J.L.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1994.tb00381.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nursing , community nursing , venous leg ulcer , leg ulcer , intensive care medicine , surgery
Summary• A descriptive survey of current reported practice by 146 community nurses for their nursing treatment of leg ulcers was undertaken. • Sixty‐four per cent of nurses reported they would apply compression bandages to only venous ulcers; in only 23% of cases could the products described achieve an adequate level of compression. • A variety of modern wound dressings were used by the nurses; 89% of nurses reported using a combination of different products layered over the ulcer. There is no evidence that this has any beneficial effect and could therefore be a potential waste of money, as well as contributing to allergic skin reactions. • It would be useful if primary‐health‐care teams and Family Health Service Authority information pharmacists formulated protocols based upon effective treatments for patients with chronic leg ulcers.