Full publication title: Experience of a chitin gelling fibre dressing (KytoCel, Aspen Medical Europe Ltd) in the management of two category 4 pressure ulcers in a community nursing home
Summary
A poster describing KytoCel within individualised care plans for longstanding category 4 pressure ulcers in nursing-home residents. It follows local wound management in these individual cases.
- Study type
- Case series poster
- Study size
- 2 nursing-home residents with category 4 pressure ulcers
Care also included off-loading, regular repositioning and nutritional support.
Key findings
- Resident 1 (81-year-old man; heel ulcer 4.2 × 4 cm probing to bone): bone was no longer exposed within 15 days, the heel healed by 1 June and it stayed intact over the following 13 weeks.
- Resident 2 (94-year-old man; MRSA-positive ulcer at the base of the spine, 9.5 × 7 cm): reduced to 3 × 4 cm by 5 August, and a repeat swab showed MRSA had cleared from the wound.