Advanced technologies and practices in chronic wound care: integrative review

Abstract

Introduction: Wounds or skin lesions are breaks in the continuity of the skin, caused by various imbalances that harm the health of people who have them. In recent years, technological progress has provided numerous benefits, improvements and improvements to the health sector. Objective: Evaluate technologies and practices in chronic wound care. Methodology: Integrative literature review research, guided by the following steps: construction of the research question; delimitation of inclusion and exclusion criteria; choice of databases; search and selection of studies; analysis and presentation of results. Results and Discussion: 500 studies were identified, after applying the language inclusion criterion, remaining 150 studies, and then reading the titles, in which 350 articles were excluded, as they were not related to the objective of this article. The abstracts of the 150 articles selected from the analysis of the titles were read and only those that met the inclusion criteria had their abstracts investigated. 10 articles were selected to compose the research. Conclusion: Therefore, it is concluded that professionals, especially those in the nursing field, must remain up to date in this field of activity, which is considered dynamic as it presents new dressings and coverings with increasingly advanced technologies, providing optimization in healing.