Systematic Reviews on Wound Management

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of wound management.

Reviewed July 2009

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Title:   Peri-operative glycaemic control regimens for preventing surgical site infections in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Wound-related infections that complicate operations ("surgical site infections") result in worse patient outcomes. Previous studies have suggested that decreasing blood glucose levels to within a low, narrow range (strict control) around the time of sur...
Date:   Jul 2009

Title:   Conventional occlusion versus pharmacologic penalization for amblyopia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Amblyopia (referred to as lazy eye) is a common childhood condition, and is defined as defective visual acuity in one or both eyes, which is present with no demonstrable abnormality of the visual pathway and is not immediately resolved by wearing glasse...
Date:   Jun 2009

Title:   Pentoxifylline for treating venous leg ulcers
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Venous leg ulcers are a common, recurring and disabling condition. The mainstay of treatment is the use of firm compression bandages or stockings to support the veins of the leg. Some leg ulcers take many months or years to heal and treatment is aimed a...
Date:   May 2009

Title:   Use of plastic adhesive drapes during surgery for preventing surgical site infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Following surgery, up to 30% of wounds may become infected. This complication of surgery may cause distress for the patient and lead to higher treatment costs. Many interventions have been designed to reduce postoperative infections. One of these is the...
Date:   Feb 2009

Title:   Topical agents and dressings for fungating wounds
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Fungating wounds sometimes occur in people with advanced cancer. Care usually aims to slow down disease progression, and improve quality of life by relieving the physical symptoms caused by the wounds (leakage, bad smell, pain and the risk of haemorrhag...
Date:   Jan 2009

Title:   Prophylactic antibiotics for penetrating abdominal trauma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   For over half a century antibiotics have been given to patients that have suffered from a penetrating injury to the abdominal peritoneal cavity in an attempt to decrease the incidence of post-operative wound infection, intra-abdominal infection and mort...
Date:   Jan 2009

Title:   Mechanical bowel preparation for elective colorectal surgery
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Preoperative mechanical bowel preparation before colorectal surgery does not reduce anastomotic leakage. Preoperative mechanical bowel preparation before colorectal surgery is a widely-practised treatment, but its efficacy has never been pr...
Date:   Oct 2008

Title:   Compression for venous leg ulcers
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Venous leg ulcers occur when the blood returning from the veins in the legs to the heart is slow or obstructed. These ulcers can take a long time to heal (weeks or months) and can cause distress to patients as well as being very costly for the health se...
Date:   Oct 2008

Title:   Antimicrobial prophylaxis for colorectal surgery
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Abdominal surgical wound infection (SWI) in patients having operations on the large intestine occurs in about 40% of patients if antibiotics are not given. This risk can be greatly diminished by the administration of antibiotics prophylactically before ...
Date:   Oct 2008

Title:   Primary repair for penetrating colon injuries
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A common treatment for wounds that penetrate the colon (part of the large intestine) is to attach the colon, from at or above the injury, to a bag outside the body via the abdominal wall (this is called a colostomy or fecal diversion). This diverts fece...
Date:   Sep 2008

Title:   Conservative treatment for closed fifth (small finger) metacarpal neck fractures
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A closed (the overlying skin remains intact) fifth metacarpal neck fracture occurs when the bone is broken just below the knuckle of the little finger. These account for approximately one in five of all hand fractures. The typical patient is a young man...
Date:   Aug 2008

Title:   Episiotomy for vaginal birth
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Episiotomy is done to prevent severe perineal tears, but its routine use has been questioned. The relative effects of midline compared with midlateral episiotomy are unclear.

Title:   Preoperative skin antiseptics for preventing surgical wound infections after clean surgery
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is insufficient evidence from randomised trials to support or refute the use of one antiseptic over another. There is no evidence to show that iodophor impregnated incise drapes reduce infections when compared to using no incise drape. Patients' s...
Date:   Jul 2008

Title:   Interventions for skin changes caused by nerve damage in leprosy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Three million persons are affected by nerve damage caused by leprosy (Hansen's disease) worldwide. Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. About 30% of people with leprosy develop nerve damage that can lead ...
Date:   Jul 2008

Title:   Interventions for unilateral refractive amblyopia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patching treatment for amblyopia (lazy eye) caused by unequal optical errors in either eye when the (usually) worst eye can fail to develop optimum vision. Amblyopia is a condition where the vision of one (or more rarely both) eyes is reduced because th...
Date:   Jul 2008

Title:   Honey as a topical treatment for wounds
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Honey is a viscous, supersaturated sugar solution derived from nectar gathered and modified by the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Honey has been used since ancient times as a remedy in wound care. More recently trials have evaluated the effects of using hone...
Date:   May 2008

Title:   Debridement for surgical wounds
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Following surgery most surgical wounds heal naturally with no complications. However, complications such as infection and wound dehiscence (opening) can occur which may result in delayed healing or wound breakdown. Infected surgical wounds may contain d...
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   Gauze and tape and transparent polyurethane dressings for central venous catheters
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A central venous catheter is a small tube inserted into a major vein to allow medications and other fluids to be 'dripped' in over a period of time without repeated injections. It is used in preference to a peripheral catheter (e.g. in the hand or arm) ...
Date:   Mar 2008

Title:   Methods of preventing bacterial sepsis and wound complications for liver transplantation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Bacterial sepsis and wound complications after liver transplantation increase mortality, morbidity, hospital stay, and overall transplant costs. Various methods have been attempted to decrease the bacterial sepsis and wound complications. A total of sev...
Date:   Feb 2008

Title:   Physical therapies for reducing and controlling lymphoedema of the limbs
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Lymphoedema is the build up of excess fluid in the body tissues because of obstruction of lymphatic drainage back into the bloodstream. The affected limb becomes swollen, distorted in shape with pain, discomfort all of which impair movement and daily ac...
Date:   Feb 2008
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