Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: October-December | Volume: 4 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 61-66
The Impact of Different Dressing Methodologies on the Outcomes of Wound Healing In Diabetic Foot Ulcer Patients: A Systematic Review
M. Jayalakshmi
PhD Research Scholar, Department of Nursing, Saveetha University, Chennai, India
ABSTRACT
Aim: The objective of this review was to assess the impact of different dressing methodologies on the outcomes of wound healing in diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) patients.
Methods:Systematic review analysis was performed by using search engines, like PubMed, Science Direct, Google, and Google Scholar. We retrieved selected published articles based on our study criteria and included the suitable articles published till January 2019. The keywords used for the retrieval of studies are “Diabetes mellitus”, “Dressing methodology”, “Diabetic foot ulcer”, and “Wound healing.” After screening the abstracts of the retrieved articles, eligible full-text articles were chosen for systematic review analysis.
Results: We found 17 eligible studies that contained 9 research articles, 7 randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and 1 random study.
Conclusion: Honey dressing methodology seemed to be effective in the treatment and outcomes of wound healing of different grades of DFUs. However, the efficacy of the other dressing methodologies, involving biological material and herbal extracts, needs to be validated with a greater number of trials in different types of DFUs.
Keywords: diabetic foot ulcers, wound healing outcome, dressing methods