Wound measurement: literature review
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1983-652X.2015.2.19947Keywords:
nursing, health management, weigths and measures, wound healing, wounds and injuries.Abstract
Objective: To identify the scientific production regarding wound measurements.
Materials and Methods: Narrative review of the literature. The search was conducted in the databases Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences and the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, in June 2014. Data analysis was performed based on the Minayo’s operative proposal.
Results: Nine studies were included in this review, enabling to identify that the wound measurement can be developed through invasive or non-invasive methods. Among the selected studies, five reported non-invasive techniques, two studies addressed invasive techniques and two reported studies on invasive versus non-invasive wound measurement techniques. The non-invasive techniques have been developed and improved in order to minimize the limitations of invasive measurement techniques.
Conclusion: The studies identified that the wound measurement can be performed through invasive methods such as decal or acetate tracing and also through disposable paper strip; or non-invasive methods such as digital photographs. It is noteworthy that both invasive and non-invasive techniques can use manual or computer measurements, although most research of this review presented non-invasive methods of measurement.
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