title: [THERAPEUTIC GUIDE IN VENOUS ULCERS].
abstract: The treatment of venous ulcers and wounds in general, is a complex and important public health problem, with personal effects, family and health, without addressing the economic impact includes assistance, care of patients with ulcerative lesions. The increase in life expectancy, driven by improved socio-sanitary conditions that this aging population, facilitates the emergence of chronic diseases may be complicated by the presence of skin ulcers. There is no doubt that the best way to treat a skin ulcer is avoiding to occur, hence the importance of early diagnosis and risk factors act alone them. In relation to venous ulcers is crucial, provide local treatment, act on the cause, because if not, relapse is the norm in this type of injury. Currently, the moist wound healing, is an important step in solving earlier of these chronic wounds. This has meant that the pharmaceutical industry has been involved in researching and creating different types of dressings, having specific activity at different stages of venous ulcer healing, ie inflammatory phase, proliferative and remodeling. The proliferation of these products has been increasing over the years, not surprisingly, are described therapeutic 12 families that are applied in the management, care of these injuries. The fact of existing therapeutic options highlights the ineffectiveness of these products individually. Therefore, the nurse will not forget that the optimal treatment of venous ulcers, necessarily involves choosing the right product for every type and stage of the lesion. In this decision process, strongly influenced by the specific characteristics of each patient and injury, the nurse will take into account a lot of factors when choosing the product, not forgetting that an ulcer is not cured with a single therapeutic element, several products being used throughout the process to evolutionary venous ulcer until complete resolution.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: López Herranz
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bas Caro
authors.forename: Rosa Ma
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: García Jábega
authors.forename: Francisco Javier
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: García Carmona
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Villalta García
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Postigo Mota
mesh_terms: D058128:Compression Bandages; D006801:Humans; D009779:Occlusive Dressings; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000628:therapy*