title: [A foot in the future].
abstract: This project won the First Edition 2007 VAC Therapy Prize. This project tells the story of a woman suffering from lesions in her left leg and running a fever whose prognosis was complicated. The article describes the nurses' evaluation of the patient's lesions, skin sores, and the application of a treatment plan using nursing diagnoses and the satisfactory treatment with negative topical pressure.
authors.affiliation: Xarxa Sanitària i Social de Santa Tecla.
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: García García
authors.forename: Montse Pérez
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Baena
authors.forename: Susana Alvarez
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.forename: Pilar Pulido
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Iturbide
authors.forename: Silvia Rodríguez
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Lera
authors.forename: Ma Carmen Sabidó
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Serra
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D016523:Foot Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D054843:Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome