Abstract

Venous Ulcers and edema are expensive to treat and chronic conditions that are a strain on home health care companies and decrease patient quality of life. The standard treatment is expensive multilayer compression wraps that time consuming requiring three weekly visits, a strain on home health care agencies and are often not successful in resolving edema and venous ulcers. Adjustable Velcro compression devices are proven to be successful compression therapy due to low one-time cost, patient's increased comfort and the patient or patients' family self-sufficient in their application.

Date of publication

Winter 12-4-2022

Document Type

MSN Capstone Project

Language

english

Persistent identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4119

Degree

Master of Science in Nursing

Included in

Nursing Commons

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