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COMPLICATIONS OF INAPPROPRIATE COMPRESSION THERAPY

JUSTINA SOMRAK ; DIAFIT d.o.o, Selnica ob Dravi, Slovenia

Abstract

The management of leg ulcer demands a team approach (consisting of family physician, appropriate specialist, community nurse, physiotherapist, and occasionally social worker) even before any complications have occurred. Correct compression therapy is a safe way to ulcer healing. The goal for both the patient and healthcare personnel is the earliest possible healing of the leg ulcer. Therefore, appropriate choice of dressing and concomitant use of compression is crucial to achieve this goal, thus allowing the patient to resume his normal daily activities while saving healthcare cost. When acting in this way, leg ulcers will heal faster, with less pain, less visits to the doctor, along with time and material reduction. If the patient lives in line with the given recommendations, this means that we have motivated him properly and correctly, thus also enabling better quality of life for him.

Keywords

compression therapy; complications

Hrčak ID:

98640

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/98640

Publication date:

25.2.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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