Aim: The aim of the paper was to describe chosen aspects of quality of life in patients with
venous leg ulcers treated at home in the Turiec region, and to find differences in assessing …

Compression, skin care, manual lymph drainage and exercise form the mainstays of
treatment of chronic limb oedema. The compression aspect of the regimen is often …

Suboptimal management of leg ulcers is a growing burden on the NHS's nursing and
financial resources. 1, 2 There is a common pattern where failure to establish a leg ulcer's …

Leg ulcers present a common clinical problem for community nurses. The need for
assessment and maintenance can take up a lot of nursing time and issues such as pain …

In today's stretched NHS, it is crucial that health-care providers and clinicians maximise
resources and efficiency without compromising patient outcomes. Following its introduction …

Graduated compression, using bandaging or compression stockings, is the gold-standard
treatment for the management of venous leg ulcers (VLUs) and preventing recurrence …

Objetivo: avaliar a qualidade de vida de pacientes acometidos por úlceras vasculogênicas
em tratamento ambulatorial. Métodos: estudo quantitativo, descritivo-comparativo, do tipo …

The Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (ABPI) was originally described by Nauman in 1930; but
it was Winsor who was first to use the test on patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) …

Complex wounds require combinations of technologies and regimes to match laboratory
tests and address challenges of physiological processes, body contours, movement and …

La Calidad de Vida (CV) la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) la define como “la
percepción del individuo de su posición en la vida, en el contexto de la cultura y sistema de …