Technological Advancement Medical and Healthcare 2022

Running head: HEALTHCARE
Topic: HEALTHCARE
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Abstract
Over the years chronic wounds have become an important consideration in the medical
world. Chronic wound infection has been considered as a pivotal part of infection inpatients
as it has constituted 3 % of the patients in the emergency department. Infection has been
mainly considered as the main factor for wound complications and delayed healing. In the
given essay, the critical appraisal of articles revolving around the topic of chronic wounds
among people suffering from ulcers in the leg are considered after the consideration and
implementation of proper search strategy.

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Introduction
Over the years due to the high technological advancement both in the medical and the
healthcare sector, the nursing of chronic wounds have become a pivotal area of study (Bui,
Finalyson & Edwards, 2018). According to the definition of medical science a chronic would
is one which actually do not heal in a particular set of stages also within a particular amount
of time like other normal wounds (Guest et al., 2014 ). Chronic wounds are usually detained
among more than one of the pivotal phases of healing of wounds (Frykberg & Banks, 2015).
It is a complex as well as a highly regulated process which is usually important for the
maintenance of the barriers of the skin (Brynt & Nix, 2015). Along with eventual progression
of the diseases, there various processes which result inn non healing wounds which could
subject the patient to significant amounts of discomfort along distress because it leads to a
draining of a huge number of sources in the medical system (Kranke et al., 2015). This might
lead to pressure ulcers, leg ulcers along with dehisced wounds (Woo, 2015). In this following
essay there would be a critical appraisal of the articles chosen for the management and
exploration of chronic wounds as a important barrier to the implementation process involving
effective management of chronic wounds (Jrabrink et al., 2016).
Clinical question developed to find the article using the PICO format –
The PICOT analysis of the given clinical question is
P – Adult patients with chronic leg ulcers
I - Validation of possible predictive factors and clinical diagnosis in patients.
C- Comparison between people suffering from chronic leg ulcers and those patients not
suffer from ulcers.
O –Validation of the predictive ability of factors for the adult population