Introduction: The healing and maintenance of tissue integrity of the venous ulcer (VU) consists of a cascade of cellular and molecular events that interact with each other for tissue regeneration to occur. Its treatment depends on the association of different mechanisms through the application of topical...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to compare the effect of adjuvant low-laser light therapy versus conventional treatment alone on venous ulcer healing. Methods: this is a randomized clinical trial with 40 patients randomized equally to a control group (topical and compressive treatment) and intervention group (adj...
ABSTRACT Objective To describe the knowledge translation obtained through research of low-level laser therapy to wound treatment in the clinical practice. Methods Experience report about implementation strategies of this new technology in a university hospital, being an extension course the main one, d...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate the effects of venous ulcer healing in patients after six months of conventional treatment and adjuvant low-power laser therapy. Methods: prospective cohort study nested in a randomized clinical trial with 38 patients, allocated into an intervention group (conventiona...
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of patients with venous ulcers (VU) on their chronic disease, treatment, and prevention of complications, according to the Nursing Outcomes Classification-NOC. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted between 2017 and 2018 in a Brazilian hospital...
Objetivo identificar a ação da terapia a laser de baixa potência na cicatrização de feridas. Método: trata-se
de um estudo bibliográfico, tipo revisão integrativa, com busca de artigos publicados entre 2004 a 2017, nas
bases de dados MEDLINE, LILACS e biblioteca virtual SciELO. Efetuaram-se, apó...
Resumo Objetivos Selecionar, desenvolver e validar as definições dos indicadores clínicos do resultado "Conhecimento: Controle da Doença Crônica" da Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) para pacientes com úlcera venosa (UVe). Métodos Estudo de validação por consenso de especialistas, realiz...
OBJECTIVE: to validate the Nursing Intervention Classifications (NIC) for the diagnosis 'Risk of Impaired Skin Integrity' in patients at risk of pressure ulcers (PU). METHOD: the sample comprised 16 expert nurses. The data was collected with an instrument about the interventions and their definitions wer...
Estudo prospectivo, longitudinal, que teve por objetivos implantar a Escala de Braden (EB) como instrumento de predição de risco para úlcera por pressão (UP) e analisar os resultados do seu uso em uma unidade de terapia intensiva. A amostra foi de 74 pacientes, os dados coletados por instrumento cont...
