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Wound assessment is a component of wound management.As far as may be practical, the assessment is to be accomplished before prescribing any treatment plan. The objective is to collect information about the patient and about the wound, that may be relevant to planning and implementing the treatment.
The periwound (also peri-wound) is tissue surrounding a wound. Periwound area is traditionally limited to 4 cm outside the wound's edge but can extend beyond this limit if outward damage to the skin is present. Periwound assessment is an important step of wound assessment before wound treatment is prescribed. [1]
Chronic wounds may take years to heal or, in some cases, may never heal, causing significant physical and emotional stress for patients and placing a financial burden on healthcare systems. [7] Acute and chronic wounds are part of a spectrum, with chronic wounds requiring prolonged and complex care compared to acute wounds. [8]
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provided healthcare for people in south west Essex, in the East of England.There were two hospitals in the trust, a specialist cardiothoracic centre and one clinical centre: Basildon University Hospital, Orsett Hospital, The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre [2] and Billericay St. Andrew's Centre.
The trust was rated 'worse than expected' over care for women giving birth. [8] The trust had a deficit of £75 million in 2015/6 and had to borrow £105 million in December 2015. [9] In March 2018 it was the eighteenth worst performer in A&E in England, with only 60.2% of patients in the main A&E seen within 4 hours. [10]
The trust set up a wholly owned subsidiary Northumbria Primary Care Ltd, in April 2015. It is run by local GPs and provides practice management including quality monitoring, governance and compliance, payroll, financial services, HR and estates maintenance for practices, initially Ponteland Medical Group with 11,000 patients, and Collingwood ...
The Trust provides a wide range of services to the population of west Suffolk and serves a catchment area of approximately 600 square miles with a population of around 280,000 people. [1] It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2604 full-time equivalent staff and a ...
A wound is any disruption of or damage to living tissue, such as skin, mucous membranes, or organs. [1] [2] Wounds can either be the sudden result of direct trauma (mechanical, thermal, chemical), or can develop slowly over time due to underlying disease processes such as diabetes mellitus, venous/arterial insufficiency, or immunologic disease. [3]