title: Know how. Four-layer bandaging.
abstract: The concept of four-layer bandaging originated in the 1980s at Charing Cross Hospital, London. Since then, a second four-layer system in kit form has been developed. The results of a recent trial involving 232 patients showed that the two systems have equivalent healing. Today, four-layer bandaging is a popular compression regime, and is used in a wide range of health-care settings. Ease of application of the bandages, and reproducibility, mean that it is not only a therapeutic technique but a very safe one.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research and Implementation of Clinical Practice, London.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moffatt
mesh_terms: D001458:Bandages; D000075202:Contraindications; D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000451:nursing*