Clinical treatment of pressure ulcer in stages Ⅱ-V / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

A total of 267 patients with pressure ulcer were randomly divided into treatment and control groups.All of them underwent traditional debridement.The wounds in treatment group were spreaded with traditional Chinese medicine.According to the results of bacteria culture and drug sensitivity,antimicrobial agents were selected in control group.The observation indices of two groups included pain grade,swelling grade,ulcer area and skin temperature difference.Then the variations of observation indices before and after treatment were examined.In treatment and control groups,the different values of pain grade before and after treatment were 2.1 ± 0.9 and 1.2 ± 0.7,swelling grade 1.3 ± 0.6 and 0.7 ± 0.5,ulcer area 4.7 ± 3.1 and 2.4 ± 2.5 and skin temperature difference 0.12 ± 0.05 and 0.22 ± 0.10 respectively.Treatment group was superior to control group and there was statistical significance (P ＜ 0.05).The effective rates were 95.6％ and 65.4％ and the number of cured patients 86 and 33 cases respectively.And there was statistical significance (P ＜ 0.05).