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Evaluation Of The Healing Progress Of Pressure Ulcers Treated With Cathodal High-Voltage Monophasic Pulsed Current: Results Of A Prospective, Double-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial, Anna Polak, Luther C. Kloth, Edward Blaszczak, Jakub Taradaj, Agnieszka Nawrat-Szoltysik, Lidia Bialek, Malgorzata Paczula, Andrzej Franek, Cezary Kucio
Evaluation Of The Healing Progress Of Pressure Ulcers Treated With Cathodal High-Voltage Monophasic Pulsed Current: Results Of A Prospective, Double-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial, Anna Polak, Luther C. Kloth, Edward Blaszczak, Jakub Taradaj, Agnieszka Nawrat-Szoltysik, Lidia Bialek, Malgorzata Paczula, Andrzej Franek, Cezary Kucio
Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of high-voltage monophasic pulsed current (HVMPC) as an adjunct to a standard wound care for the treatment of Stage II and III pressure ulcers (PrUs).
DESIGN: Prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical study.
SETTING: Two nursing and care centers.
PATIENTS: Patients with PrUs that did not respond to previous treatment for at least 4 weeks were randomly assigned to the electrical stimulation (ES) group (25 patients; mean age of 79.92 ± 8.50 years; mean wound surface area [WSA] of 10.58 ± 10.57 cm2) or to the control group (24 patients; mean age of 76.33 …