Visitrak

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Visitrak

• a novel method in wound assessment
• Rolf Jelnes Sår-i-Syd

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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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Commonly used
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Grids
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Grids

• Approaching truth !
• Cumbersome different methods
• Weighing
• Optic reading/ planimetry
• Succesfull ????

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Visitrak

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

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Wound area ?

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

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Area

• 21.4cm2
• 27.5cm2
• 28 !!!

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Standard conditions

• Define locally
• Choose wound edge og skin edge ?
• Which side of the drawingline ?

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Depth

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

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different tissue

• 9.9

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Problems

• Circular wounds
• Anatomic limitations
• Depth
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  relevance ?

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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

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case

• See visitrak capture

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Sår-i-Syd

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