Wounds Protocol at Family Health Strategy Units in a Rio Grande do Sul Countryside Town

Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceicao20 enrolled

Overview

Evaluate the process for implementing a wound protocol for lesion control and cost-effectiveness in the context of the Family Health Strategy in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Chronic Vascular Wounds in Adults

Interventions

Wounds ProtocolCOMBINATION_PRODUCT

Nurses who have been trained to use wound dressing supplies and also on the use of the protocol.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 YearsMax age: 90 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Presenting vascular (venous, arterial or mixed) ulcers for over 1 year; * Be available to have wounds dressed at the healthcare unit; * Be a patient registered with the Family Health Strategy teams. Exclusion Criteria: * Have some condition rendering the patient unable to go to the unit, such as being bedridden or having had a lower limb amputated; * Having decompensated diabetes mellitus; * Having move away from the Family Health Strategy unit's coverage area.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Lesion remission by measuring the surface area of the wound

Remission of the wound, and other clinical variables such as odor, pain, infection and presence of exudate.

Time frame: one month

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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