Quel pansement convient à quelle plaie ?
Trouver le bon produit pour la situation actuelle de la plaie ainsi que pour les besoins du patient peut être un défi. Pour une cicatrisation réussie, la plaie a besoin d’humidité, de chaleur et d’un environnement exempt de bactéries. L’utilisation de produits de soin des plaies doit être adaptée individuellement à l’état et aux besoins de la plaie. Les facteurs décisifs pour la meilleure sélection possible sont la phase de cicatrisation dominante, la quantité d’exsudat et la colonisation germinale de la plaie.
Avec notre gamme innovante de produits de soins des plaies, nous voulons vous aider à trouver la meilleure solution pour une gestion optimale des soins des plaies. Il suffit d’utiliser l’outil de recherche de produits ci-dessous et de filtrer selon les critères appropriés.
Avec notre gamme innovante de produits de soins des plaies, nous voulons vous aider à trouver la meilleure solution pour une gestion optimale des soins des plaies. Il suffit d’utiliser l’outil de recherche de produits ci-dessous et de filtrer selon les critères appropriés.
Trauma
Traumatic injuries occur when an external or foreign object strikes the body. These injuries are commonly caused by motor vehicle crashes, bullets, natural disasters, explosive blasts, falls and industrial accidents. Traumatic wounds may damage bone and/or internal organs, are not created surgically, and always are viewed as contaminated and at risk for infection. [18]
18. Crumbley, D.R. & Andrew, L.E. (2016). Traumatic wounds: assessment and management. In D.B. Doughty & L.L. McNichol (Eds.), Wound, ostomy and continence nurses society core curriculum: wound management (pp. 635-48) Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia.
Burns
A burn is an injury to tissue that may be caused by dry heat, such as fire or contact with a hot surface, or moist heat, such as steam or hot liquids, chemicals, electricity, lightning, or radiation from either the sun or radiotherapy. Burns vary in severity depending on the extent of tissue damage: superficial, superficial -partial thickness, deep partial thickness, or full thickness. They are classified according to the total body surface area effected by the damage and sometimes classified by first, second, or third degree depending on the depth of the burn. Third degree burns are full thickness. Control of bacteria and reduction of pain associated with dressing changes is very important with burns and antimicrobial dressings can address these concerns. ConvaTec offers dressings that are helpful with burn care both for the burn, and the graft harvest area when skin grafts are required. [1,2]
- Edwards, V. (2013). Key aspects of burn wound management. Wounds UK. 9(Supp 3), 1-9.
- International Best Practice Guidelines (2014). Effective skin and wound management of noncomplex burns. Wounds International. Retrieved from http://www.woundsinternational.com/best-practices/view/best-practice-guidelines-effective-skin-and-wound-management-in-non-complex-burns.
Leg Ulcers
A leg ulcer is the breakdown in tissue on a leg or foot resulting from alterations in either the arterial or venous vessels, or both, in the lower leg. Venous leg ulcers are the most common type of leg ulcers and are the result of poor venous return to the heart resulting in sustained venous hypertension, causing swelling and tissue damage in the lower leg. [5]
- Principles of compression in venous disease: a practitioner’s guide to treatment and prevention of venous leg ulcers. (2013). Wounds International. Retrieved from http://www.woundsinternational.com/best-practices/view/principles-of-compression-in-venous-disease-a-practitioners-guide-to-treatment-and-prevention-of-venous-leg-ulcers.
Diabetic Foot Ulcers
A diabetic foot ulcer is associated with a loss of sensation and/or peripheral arterial and/or structural changes in the lower limb as a result of diabetes. It may be associated with pressure from ill-fitting footwear and these injuries are often on the tips of the toes or on the plantar surface of the head of the first metatarsal. [3, 4]
- Young, M. (2014). The diabetic foot: an overview for diabetes nurses. J of Diabetes Nursing 18(6), 218–26.
- International Best Practice Guidelines (2013). Wound management in diabetic foot ulcers. Wounds International. Retrieved from http://www.woundsinternational.com/best-practices/view/best-practice-guidelines-wound-management-in-diabetic-foot-ulcers.