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Visitrak

Visitrak. a novel method in wound assessment Rolf Jelnes ”Sår-i-Syd”. Quality in wound healing – focusing on size of the wound. Documentation: by describtion words, words by photography many photos are in stock difficult to compare by measuring circumference, height, width, depth.

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Visitrak

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  1. Visitrak a novel method in wound assessment Rolf Jelnes ”Sår-i-Syd”

  2. Quality in wound healing – focusing on sizeof the wound • Documentation: • by describtion • words, words • by photography • many photos are in stock • difficult to compare • by measuring • circumference, height, width, depth

  3. Commonly used

  4. Grids

  5. Grids • Approaching truth ! • Cumbersome – different methods • Weighing • Optic reading/ planimetry • Succesfull ????

  6. Visitrak • Allows for bedside measurement of • Wound area • Height • Width • Depth • % of e.g. necrotic tissue

  7. Wound area ? • Accuracy ? • Depends on working conditions • Is the wound easy to get access to ? • Moisture • Where to draw the line ?

  8. Area • 21.4cm2 • 27.5cm2 • 28% !!!

  9. Standard conditions: • Define locally: • Choose wound edge og skin edge ? • Which side of the drawingline ?

  10. Depth • Difficult task • Time consuming, at least in my hands • Gave up !!! • I missed the users manual !

  11. % different tissue • 9.9%

  12. Problems • Circular wounds • Anatomic limitations • Depth relevance ?

  13. Conclusion • Reliable method to measure changes in size applicable to most leg ulcers • with two ekstra features: • % different tissue within • soft ware to work with the data

  14. case See visitrak capture

  15. ”Sår-i-Syd” • Will be part of our online documentation • www.logbog.net/dermasja/login.asp

  16. Thank you for your attention

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