Products and technologies for treating patients with evidence-based pressure ulcers
Tatiana Neves Figueira, Marli Terezinha Stein Backes, Neide da Silva Knihs, Isabel Cristina Alves Maliska, Lúcia Nazareth Amante, Maria Lígia dos Reis Bellaguarda
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: to identify products/technologies for treating patients with pressure ulcers with an evidence level 1. METHOD: this is an integrative literature review. A survey of studies was carried out using the United States National Library of Medicine Portal, Scientific Electronic Library Online, Virtual Health Library, National Library of Medicine(®), The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Latin American and Caribbean in Health Sciences, Nursing Database. RESULTS: sixteen articles were selected with level of evidence 1. The findings were categorized into five categories: Topical therapy to promote healing; Alternative therapy to promote healing; Topical therapy to promote debridement; Topical therapy to minimize lesion contamination; Topical therapy to reduce lesion size. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: the 17 products/technologies identified favor/fast healing, debridement, minimize contamination and reduce lesion size to accelerate healing.