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Wound Central · 2021
Serena, T., Andersen, C., Cole, W., Garoufalis, M., & Frykberg, R.
Wound Central (MA Healthcare), Vol 5, Issue 4 (Sept 2021), p288
This consensus document reports a two-round Delphi survey of wound care experts who attended a May 2021 conference, carried out to standardize the use of topical oxygen therapy in hard-to-heal wounds. The panel agreed that perfusion, bacterial load and nutrition should be assessed, and debridement, edema management and offloading carried out, before ordering topical oxygen, and that it should be considered for wounds with delayed healing or failure of prior therapies. Diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers and ischemic ulcers were judged likely to benefit, with the wound reassessed every 4 weeks and therapy continued as long as it is improving.
This consensus was sponsored by the SerenaGroup Research Foundation.
Plain-language summary by SerenaGroup. See the full text for complete methods and results.
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