The effectiveness of dalethyne dressings for reducing bacteria in diabetic foot ulcers
The effectiveness of dalethyne dressings for reducing bacteria in diabetic foot ulcers作者机构:Department of Medical-Surgical NursingThe Institute of Nursing Muhammadiyah PontianakPontianakWest Kalimantan 78124Indonesia Department of Medical-Surgical NursingSchool of NursingFaculty of MedicineTanjungpura UniversityPontianakKalimantan Barat 78124Indonesia
出 版 物:《Frontiers of Nursing》 (护理前沿(英文))
年 卷 期:2021年第8卷第2期
页 面:153-158页
学科分类:0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位)] 0401[教育学-教育学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1011[医学-护理学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100201[医学-内科学(含:心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学]
主 题:diabetic ulcer dalethyne infection Staphylococcus aureus
摘 要:Objective:This study evaluates the effectiveness of a dalethyne dressing for decreasing bacteria in diabetic patients with infected foot ***:This study was conducted from March to September 2018 with a sample of 30 participants from the outpatient Kitamura Wound Clinic in Pontianak City,Indonesia.A quasi-experimental non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design was used for the *** were divided into two groups:an intervention group(treated with a dalethyne dressing)and a control group(treated with a standard dressing).Two trained research assistants collected the data using the Wagner wound classification system and a bacteria *** assistants swabbed each wound surface with sterile cotton,and the swabs were used to conduct a bacteria culture and ***:The study population was 50%female and 50%male with no significant differences between each other in age,HbA1c,blood pressure,or ankle-brachial index(ABI;P0.05).Both groups had a significant reduction in the number of bacteria from the pretest to posttest(P0.05).Mann-Whitney analysis of posttest data indicated a significant difference in bacteria reduction between the control group(median=2.25)and the intervention group(median=7.6;P=0.018).It was noted that Staphylococcus aureus was found in the control group at posttest,but not in the intervention ***:This study provides evidence that a dalethyne dressing is effective for killing *** in the infected foot ulcers of diabetic patients.