Abstract

GAGO FORNELLS, M. et al. Evaluation of Sanitary Technology: Dressings based on humid environment cure for chronic wounds. Gerokomos [online]. 2008, vol.19, n.4, pp.48-54. ISSN 1134-928X.

In the last two decades the wounds sector has been subjected by the industry to a constant shelling in production, differentiation and suitability of types of dressings that requires necessarily and by imperative from the health staff an exhaustive knowledge of the technology that they have in their hands. The Sanitary Technology reports have become a good tool for covering both the evaluation of the dressings based on humid environment cure and their indications precision. In the present work we analyze the structure of a Sanitary Technology Evaluation report, from its general context to its special features in the field of dressings for wounds care, and the basic and standard characteristics requested by professionals and patients, always keeping an integral vision from the nurse care perspective. Finally, we propose an ideal report for a fictitious hospital or health center, that adapts itself to all the premises of quality, the realities of every health field and the possibilities of each sanitary system.

Keywords : Dressing; humid environment care; wound; pressure sore; sanitary technology.

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