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A person's lived experience of pressure injuries is a complex phenomenon that refers to an individual's personal and subjective experience (Prosek and Gibson, 2021). According to NHS England (2023),...
The risk of developing a DFU is influenced by both individual patient characteristics and specific foot-related factors (Table 2). A foot categorised as ‘at risk’ necessitates increased levels of...
‘People sleeping, about to bed down (sitting on/in or standing next to their bedding) or actually bedded down in the open air (such as on the streets, in tents, doorways, parks, bus shelters or...
The term skin substitutes can be misleading in that these products do not fully replace the integumentum when applied, but most do replicate some properties of normal skin and are thus an important...
‘Damage to or alteration of the free flow of lymph through local or regional lymphatic vessels in the area of a chronic wound contributes to pathological changes to the lymphatic system and...
The main functions of the lymphatic system in the context of healing leg ulcers and the health of the integumentary system overall, which consists mainly of the skin, are the immune response and the...
The proposed scoping review will be conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology for scoping reviews (Peters et al, 2020)..
This literature review explored the use of a PEI as an adjunct to improve VLU healing in housebound patients using compression therapy. The aim was to determine if an unsupervised PEI is beneficial to...
‘I had category 4 pressure ulcer x2 which made me feel very bad. The pressure ulcer specialist did a good job in getting the proper equipment … which helped to relieve the pressure off my bottom and...
The thematic analysis identified 102 codes grouped into three themes to describe the content of 609 citations of interest for the research. Table 3 reports the themes and codes along with the number...
Nurses' knowledge of VLUs and familiarity with compression therapy devices appears to be low (Heyer et al, 2017b; Duran-Saenz et al, 2022). In 2014, Ylönen et al (2014) conducted a systematic review...
It is widely recognised that wound care spans not only the life course of the population, but also the health and social care settings in which people may live, work and access. With rising numbers of...
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