[A foot in the future].
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.
García García
José Antonio
JA
Xarxa Sanitària i Social de Santa Tecla.
Baena
Montse Pérez
MP
Gómez
Susana Alvarez
SA
Iturbide
Pilar Pulido
PP
Lera
Silvia Rodríguez
SR
Serra
Ma Carmen Sabidó
MC
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