Clinical aspects related to infection in patients with chronic wounds
International Journal of Development Research
Clinical aspects related to infection in patients with chronic wounds
Received 11th July, 2020; Received in revised form 19th August, 2020; Accepted 06th September, 2020; Published online 30th October, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Bianca Campos Oliveira1 et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: describethe clinical aspects related to infection in chronic wounds. Materials and methods: cross-sectional study, focusing on the prevalence of infection in chronic wounds. The sample consisted of 27 patients. In data collection, sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were evaluated. Data analysis was performed in Excel 2013 with Action Stat with descriptive statistics, Shapiro-Wilk and Spearman tests. Results: there was a prevalence of men (63.0%, 17/27), elderly (63.0%, 17/27), with multiple chronic diseases (77.7%, 21/27) and venous ulcers (74.0 %, 20/27). The lesions had more than 21 cm2 (77.7%, 21/27), superficial depth (81.4%, 22/27), granulation tissue (48.1%, 13/27) and infection (70.3%, 19/27). The correlation between the size of the lesion and the number of clinical signs of infection was statistically significant (p-value: 0.047). Conclusion: it points to the possibility of identifying more clinical signs of infection in wounds with a larger area.
