12-Year within-wound study of the effectiveness of custom pressure garment therapy

Engrav, Loren H.; Heimbach, David M.; Rivara, Frederick P.; Moore, Merilyn L.; Wang, J.; Carrougher, Gretchen J.; Costa, B. A.; Numhom, Surawej; Calderon, Joachim; Gibran, Nicole S.

doi:10.1016/j.burns.2010.04.014

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“…In a 12-year study of pressure garments used to manage forearm burn scars, those treated with PGT were thinner, softer, and had a better overall appearance (Engrav et al, 2010). Other clinical studies have shown decreased scar height (Candy, Ceceila, & Ping, 2010), as well as significant reduction of redness and thickness among PGTtreated scars (Anzarut, Olson, Singh, Rowe, & Tredget, 2009).…”

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“…Not only does PGT decrease the height or thickness and redness of scarring, but it promotes the psychosocial adjustment of patients by improving scar aesthetics (Sharp et al, 2016). During the half century since being introduced, PGT has become the standard of care for the prevention and treatment of scarring among burn survivors in the United States (Engrav et al, 2010).…”

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One World, One Standard for Burn Care: Nursing's Role in Global Health

Ramstad

Potter

2017

IJPS

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One World, One Standard for Burn Care: Nursing's Role in Global Health

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2017

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“…1 The expected pressure estimated on the basis of Laplace law has been reported to be inadequate in some cases. [2][3][4] It appears that compressibility of the body parts and curvature must have a significant effect.…”

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Prediction of Pressure due to Elastic Fabric Tube Following Energy Principle

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Bera²

2017

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Elastic knitted fabric tubes are used as pressure garments and pressure bandages in compression therapy to mitigate many physical ailments of human beings. Laplace law has been extensively used for prediction of pressure at the interface of human body and elastic tube by many. However, it has been stated to be inadequate in some cases. Human body is compressible because of presence of soft tissues. This characteristic has not been taken into account. In the present paper a mathematical model based on energy principle has been proposed to predict pressure by a fabric tube fitted on foam covered rigid cylinder. The model equation has shown better prediction of the interfacial pressure than that one expects based on Laplace's law.

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“…It has been reported that pressure greater than 40mmHg may result other complications [5]. Nevertheless, most pressure garments fitting were assessed using ''sight, touch and experience" [2,6].…”

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A New Invention Method to Determine the Reduction Factor for Low Fabric Tension Properties for Head Garment Fabrication

2016

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Abstract. This paper proposes a new method to determine the reduction factor for producing a head garment with specified targeted pressure output. Pressure garment fabric mostly supplied to the local hospitals with no information of the material properties and the fabrication method generally used a single reduction factor at various body segments. Reduction factor defined as the percentage of reducing the garment size from the original circumference of the body part which contributes to the compression. The objective of this study is to compare the fabrication method of head garment using reduction factor equation from previous research with the new proposed method. The equation to predict the reduction factor requires the parameter of the fabric tension which is obtained from tensile test and radius of curvature of the human body parts. In the new proposed method, a 3D scanning was used for data acquisition to obtain the geometry of the head area. The pressure outputs are measured by a pressure measurement system developed from Flexiforce sensor and Arduino circuit board. By using the equation, the result shows the calculated reduction factor produced an extremely tight head garment compared to the conducted experiments which manage to produce an adequate reduction factor with a targeted pressure output of 20mmHg. The result of the experiment indicates that the reduction factor ranging from 17% to 23% compared to the equation which produces 20% to 47% of reduction factor. As an additional, the proposed experimental method can be used for different type of pressure garment fabrics in order to obtain the relationship between the reduction factor and the circumference of the body parts.

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12-Year within-wound study of the effectiveness of custom pressure garment therapy

Cited by 128 publications

References 49 publications

One World, One Standard for Burn Care: Nursing's Role in Global Health

One World, One Standard for Burn Care: Nursing's Role in Global Health

Prediction of Pressure due to Elastic Fabric Tube Following Energy Principle

A New Invention Method to Determine the Reduction Factor for Low Fabric Tension Properties for Head Garment Fabrication

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