Search

Clinicians are expected to show improved healing rates, reduction in recurrence rates and to demonstrate greater patient satisfaction. All patients should rightly expect a high standard of holistic care that supports both their physical and emotional needs. Keeping the patient engaged in the 'healing process' has many beneficial outcomes, not least to their emotional wellbeing. Managing to heal the wounds within a realistic timeframe is the required outcome for all parties. This article demonstrates how a new compression device, Juxta CURES, has a positive impact on patients' quality of life, also benefiting the clinician while maintaining cost-saving efficiencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a negative pressure wound therapy workshop which was conducted by nurse Jeannette Milne as part of the Wound Expo 2017 event, and it mentions the burden of chronic wound treatments, nurse-patient relations, and the British National Health Service (NHS) agency. Wound healing and patient reassessments are addressed, along with alternative medical treatments for wounds. Wound infection treatment and surgical flaps and grafts are examined.