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Higher Periwound Temperature Associated with Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers Detected by Infrared Thermography
Visual and empirical assessments do not enable the early detection of wound deterioration or necroses. No suitable objective indicator for predicting poor wound-healing is currently available. We used infrared thermography to determine the association between wound temperature and pressure-wound hea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8269037/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34209633 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132883 |
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author | Lin, Yen-Hsi Chen, Yen-Chin Cheng, Kuo-Sheng Yu, Po-Jui Wang, Jiun-Ling Ko, Nai-Ying |
author_facet | Lin, Yen-Hsi Chen, Yen-Chin Cheng, Kuo-Sheng Yu, Po-Jui Wang, Jiun-Ling Ko, Nai-Ying |
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description | Visual and empirical assessments do not enable the early detection of wound deterioration or necroses. No suitable objective indicator for predicting poor wound-healing is currently available. We used infrared thermography to determine the association between wound temperature and pressure-wound healing. We examined patients with grades 2–4 pressure ulcers from a medical center in southern Taiwan and recorded the temperatures of the wound bed, periwound, and normal skin using infrared thermographic cameras. A total of 50 pressure ulcers and 248 infrared-thermography temperature records were analyzed. Normal skin temperature was not related to pressure ulcer wound healing. In a multivariate analysis, higher malnutrition universal-screening-tool scores were associated with poor wound-healing (p = 0.020), and higher periwound-temperature values were associated with better wound-healing (p = 0.028). In patients who had higher periwound-skin temperature than that of the wound bed, that result was also associated with better wound-healing (p = 0.002). Wound-bed and periwound temperatures differed significantly with the grade of the pressure ulcer, and a high periwound temperature was positively correlated with wound healing. Infrared thermography can objectively serve as indicators for assessing pressure-ulcer healing. |
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spelling | pubmed-82690372021-07-10 Higher Periwound Temperature Associated with Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers Detected by Infrared Thermography Lin, Yen-Hsi Chen, Yen-Chin Cheng, Kuo-Sheng Yu, Po-Jui Wang, Jiun-Ling Ko, Nai-Ying J Clin Med Article Visual and empirical assessments do not enable the early detection of wound deterioration or necroses. No suitable objective indicator for predicting poor wound-healing is currently available. We used infrared thermography to determine the association between wound temperature and pressure-wound healing. We examined patients with grades 2–4 pressure ulcers from a medical center in southern Taiwan and recorded the temperatures of the wound bed, periwound, and normal skin using infrared thermographic cameras. A total of 50 pressure ulcers and 248 infrared-thermography temperature records were analyzed. Normal skin temperature was not related to pressure ulcer wound healing. In a multivariate analysis, higher malnutrition universal-screening-tool scores were associated with poor wound-healing (p = 0.020), and higher periwound-temperature values were associated with better wound-healing (p = 0.028). In patients who had higher periwound-skin temperature than that of the wound bed, that result was also associated with better wound-healing (p = 0.002). Wound-bed and periwound temperatures differed significantly with the grade of the pressure ulcer, and a high periwound temperature was positively correlated with wound healing. Infrared thermography can objectively serve as indicators for assessing pressure-ulcer healing. MDPI 2021-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8269037/ /pubmed/34209633 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132883 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lin, Yen-Hsi Chen, Yen-Chin Cheng, Kuo-Sheng Yu, Po-Jui Wang, Jiun-Ling Ko, Nai-Ying Higher Periwound Temperature Associated with Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers Detected by Infrared Thermography |
title | Higher Periwound Temperature Associated with Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers Detected by Infrared Thermography |
title_full | Higher Periwound Temperature Associated with Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers Detected by Infrared Thermography |
title_fullStr | Higher Periwound Temperature Associated with Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers Detected by Infrared Thermography |
title_full_unstemmed | Higher Periwound Temperature Associated with Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers Detected by Infrared Thermography |
title_short | Higher Periwound Temperature Associated with Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers Detected by Infrared Thermography |
title_sort | higher periwound temperature associated with wound healing of pressure ulcers detected by infrared thermography |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8269037/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34209633 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132883 |
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