Outpatient Wound Care

Kravitz, Melva

doi:10.1016/s0899-5885(18)30337-x

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“…Discharge planning In current practice, many patients are discharged very soon after their operation, before surgical incisions have fully healed. 398 The lack of optimum protocols for home incision care dictates that much of what is done at home by the patient, family, or home care agency practitioners must be individualized. The intent of discharge planning is to maintain integrity of the healing incision, educate the patient about the signs and symptoms of infection, and advise the patient about whom to contact to report any problems.…”

Section: Operative Characteristics: Postoperative Issues a Incision mentioning

confidence: 99%

Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999

Mangram

Horan²,

Pearson³

et al. 1999

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol.

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The “Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999” presents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s recommendations for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSIs), formerly called surgical wound infections. This two-part guideline updates and replaces previous guidelines.Part I, “Surgical Site Infection: An Overview,” describes the epidemiology, definitions, microbiology, pathogenesis, and surveillance of SSIs. Included is a detailed discussion of the pre-, intra-, and postoperative issues relevant to SSI genesis.

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Section: Operative Characteristics: Postoperative Issues a Incision mentioning

confidence: 99%

Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999

Mangram

Horan²,

Pearson³

et al. 1999

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol.

3,941

1,828

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“…Co-operation with the GP 5 (19.3) 7 (26.9) 7 (26.9) 5 (19.2) 2 (7.7) Co-operation with the AN 3 (11.5) 14 (53.9) 9 (34.6) Interprofessional co-operation with wound care 8 (30.8) 18 (69.2) patients with acute wounds are discharged from the institutional care to the home care at a much earlier time in their recovery (Kravitz, 1996 The results show that the DNs regard wound management as their responsibility and that they carry out most of the work in wound care. Also according to other studies a significant part of the DN's time is spent on this (Lindholm, 2003;Quioc, 2001;Ö ien, et al, 2000).…”

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“…Patients with acute and traumatic wounds are discharged from the acute care settings to the home care at a much earlier time in their recovery (Kravitz, 1996). Therefore it is important to get an understanding of all kinds of wound appearance.…”

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Wound care in primary health care: District nurses' needs for co-operation and well-functioning organization

Friman¹,

Klang²,

Ebbeskog³

2009

Journal of Interprofessional Care

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Most patients with leg- and foot ulcers are managed within non-institutional care. The aim of this study was to investigate the district nurses' wound management, including wound appearance, assignment of responsibility, guidelines for wound treatment and co-operation with other professional groups. The study has a descriptive quantitative approach. Data was collected using a wound registration form and a questionnaire. The selection of participants was made by random sampling. District nurses (n = 26) in five health-care centers situated in central Stockholm and two of its suburbs, participated in the study. The results show that the wound appearance is dominated by traumatic wounds. Approximately 40% of the wounds were not medically diagnosed. The area of responsibility of different professional groups was not defined and guidelines for wound treatment were mostly lacking. The decision about wound management was generally made by the district nurse. Co-operation with the general practitioner was lacking and when a consultation with dermatologist was required, the routines concerning referral were undefined. Co-operation with the assistant nurses consisted of redressing the wounds in home care. Interprofessional co-operation was regarded as important for wound healing. The paper provides insights into the district nurses' wound management and co-operation in wound care.

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“…This can only be achieved by giving the antibiotics 30 to 60minutes before the time of surgery. The antibiotics used should be bacterial [11] . Post-operative antibiotics therapy mean administration of antibiotics in the post-operative period for 5 to 7 days from this may arise complication like antibiotics resistance, super infection or specific toxicity [12] .…”

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A study on various factors influencing the wound infection following abdominal operations

Anantharaman¹

2019

Int. J. Surg. Sci.

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The "antiseptic principle" or "Listerian method" although initially resisted by some surgeons they were gradually adopted. Even late in 19th century antiseptic surgery was not practiced. Surgeons washed their hands after surgery, but seldom before. Ernest Begmann said in 1882 that the new thing in surgery is "we wash our hands before surgery". The study subjects included 100 Patients admitted for Elective and Emergency abdominal surgeries in Department of Surgery. Patients who are undergoing elective and emergency abdominal surgeries are randomly divided into two groups. In this study 22 patients were of lower class and out of which 11 patients had infection i.e. 50%. Out of 64 middle class patients 17.18% patients had infection and out of 14 upper class patients one had infection i.e. 7.14%. So lower class people have chances of infection P value is <0.05 and is statistically significant.

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Outpatient Wound Care

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999

Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999

Wound care in primary health care: District nurses' needs for co-operation and well-functioning organization

A study on various factors influencing the wound infection following abdominal operations

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