Clinical Study on Combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine External Application and Red Light Irradiation in Treatment of Elderly Pressure Ulcers
Objective To observe the effect of external application of traditional Chinese medicine combined with infrared ray on pressure sores in elderly patients.Methods A total of 96 elderly patients with pressure ulcers admitted to the department from June 2021 to August 2022 were randomly divided into observation group and control group,with 48 cases in each group.The con-trol group was irradiated with a red light instrument,while the observation group was irradiated with a red light instrument while receiving self prescribed external application of traditional Chinese medicine.The effects of intervention,pain scores,wound heal-ing and levels of inflammatory factors[interleukin-6(IL-6),interleukin-8(IL-8)and C-reactive protein(hs-CRP)]be-fore and after intervention were compared between the two groups.Results After 4 weeks of intervention,the visual analog scale(VAS)score in the observation group was lower than that in the control group.The cleaning time of wound exudate,the wound healing time and the granulation tissue growth time of the observation group were shorter than those of the control group.The total effective rate was 95.83％in the observation,higher than 79.17％in the control group.Meanwhile,the levels of IL-6,IL-8 and hs-CRP in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group(P＜0.05).Conclusion The inter-vention effect of external application of traditional Chinese medicine combined with infrared radiation on elderly patients with pressure ulcers is reliable,can inhibit the inflammatory factors,alleviate the pain,shorten the wound healing time and improve the effect,which is worthy of promoting.
pressure soreadvanced ageexternal application of traditional Chinese medicineinfrared ray
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