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Effect of Polarized Light in the Healing Process of Pressure Ulcers by Pangiota Iordanou; G Baltopoulos; M Giannakopoulou(Nurs); P Bellou; E Ktenas is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.

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A trial was conducted to examine the effect of polarized light on pressure ulcers of 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Patients with two pressure ulcers, one of which received the polarized light therapy (experimental ulcer) and the other acting as control, were included in the study. The experimental ulcers received treatments for 2 weeks consisting a 5 min therapy session each day, excluding weekends, for 10 days. Experimental and control ulcers were assessed as they appeared on admission and reassessed at the end of each week. Fifty‐five patients aged 37–85 years (67.1 ± 11.9 years were studied. Pressure ulcers of 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades receiving extra treatment with polarized light had increased values of epithelial tissue between the first and second assessments of 0–30.9% and between the second and third assessments of 30.9–21.7%. Values of the control pressure ulcers were, respectively, from 0 to 5.5% and from 5.5% to 3.1%. The mean pink/white colour values of the experimental ulcers, between the first and second measurements increased significantly compared with the control ulcers (__P__ = 0.021) and also increased significantly between the second and third measurements (__P__ = 0.

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Author

Pangiota Iordanou; G Baltopoulos; M Giannakopoulou(Nurs); P Bellou; E Ktenas

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1322-7114)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)