Pressure garments for use in the treatment of hypertrophic scars – an evaluation of current construction techniques in NHS hospitals

Macintyre, Lisa; Baird, Margot

doi:10.1016/j.burns.2004.08.007

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“…Although some experts have suggested applying pressure within a range of 15 mm Hg-25 mmHg [16,23,24,26,29,30,[38][39][40], many experts have recommended wearing silica gel film inside the pressure garments (only at locations with hard or convex scars), but this type of silicon film can only be worn for 8-12 hours per day [6,12,14,41,42] because such items can lengthen scarring duration and can be allergenic. However, they still have a favourable effect.…”

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“…Although pressure garments are widely used, their efficacy has not been scientifically proven [16,[23][24][25][26]. Many unanswered questions remain concerning their effective use and fabrication [16,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. The garments must be worn 23 hours a day and removed for 1 hour for hygiene purposes, such as moisturising the skin or massaging the scar.…”

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“…Scars should be massaged firmly to help disband the bundles of collagen within the scar. Massaging and applying skin creams can reduce any itching caused by the maturing scars [16,[23][24][25]28,29]. Without the constant pressure of the garment, the collagen fibres of the scar tissue grow unsystematically, whereas the inner structure of a scar matured under constant pressure more closely resembles the natural patterns of fibres in healthy skin [20][21][22]26,31].…”

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Fitted Pressure Garment of Assessment of Scar Thickness on Third-Degree Burns through Ultrasonic Measurement

Huang¹,

Lu²,

Liu³

2017

J Cytol Histol

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The aim of this study was to assess the thickness of the scars on the left arm of a female third-degree burn patient through ultrasonic examination in order to investigate the use of 25-mm Hg pressure garments, which are a key treatment for burns. The patient was injured with third-degree burns more than 10 years ago. Sixteen scars were examined. The resulting Pearson correlation of the forearm and upper arm was 0.138 (weak correlation; R 2 =0.0191). Therefore, in this case, all data points fell on a straight line with a positive (upward) slope. This result indicated different thicknesses for the upper arm and forearm third-degree burn scars; this result displays different thickness for the upper arms and forearm the third degree burn scars; the scars did not spread evenly due to the loading capacity of different parts of body instead of the pressure by pressure garment.This paper provides accurate information to manufacturers, therapists, and tailors regarding measurements for pressure garments. The results suggest that burn scars should be subject to appropriate pressure on the basis of medium scar height to avoid increasing scars and to stabilise burns, validating the hypothesis that 25 mmHg is not the optimal pressure for female patients with third-degree burns on the left arm and that the optimal pressure should be based on the patient's burns and wound area. To our knowledge, this is the first study to correlate the thickness of third-degree burns through ultrasound scan.

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Fitted Pressure Garment of Assessment of Scar Thickness on Third-Degree Burns through Ultrasonic Measurement

Huang¹,

Lu²,

Liu³

2017

J Cytol Histol

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“…Reduction factor calculated using the fabric tension from the tensile test cannot be applied for the larger circumferences. According to previous studies, the reduction factor used for the most body part are in the range from 10% to 25% only [6,15,16]. Therefore, a new method is proposed to determine the relationship of reduction factor and circumference to achieve certain target pressure output.…”

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“…It has been reported that pressure greater than 40mmHg may result other complications [5]. Nevertheless, most pressure garments fitting were assessed using ''sight, touch and experience" [2,6]. In order to predict the pressure generated by pressure garment, Laplace`s Law has been widely used by other previous studies as given in Eq.…”

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A New Invention Method to Determine the Reduction Factor for Low Fabric Tension Properties for Head Garment Fabrication

2016

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Abstract. This paper proposes a new method to determine the reduction factor for producing a head garment with specified targeted pressure output. Pressure garment fabric mostly supplied to the local hospitals with no information of the material properties and the fabrication method generally used a single reduction factor at various body segments. Reduction factor defined as the percentage of reducing the garment size from the original circumference of the body part which contributes to the compression. The objective of this study is to compare the fabrication method of head garment using reduction factor equation from previous research with the new proposed method. The equation to predict the reduction factor requires the parameter of the fabric tension which is obtained from tensile test and radius of curvature of the human body parts. In the new proposed method, a 3D scanning was used for data acquisition to obtain the geometry of the head area. The pressure outputs are measured by a pressure measurement system developed from Flexiforce sensor and Arduino circuit board. By using the equation, the result shows the calculated reduction factor produced an extremely tight head garment compared to the conducted experiments which manage to produce an adequate reduction factor with a targeted pressure output of 20mmHg. The result of the experiment indicates that the reduction factor ranging from 17% to 23% compared to the equation which produces 20% to 47% of reduction factor. As an additional, the proposed experimental method can be used for different type of pressure garment fabrics in order to obtain the relationship between the reduction factor and the circumference of the body parts.

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The Pressure Comfort Sensation of Female’s Body Parts Caused by Compression Garment

Wang

Liu

Luo³

et al. 2017

Advances in Human Factors in Wearable Technologies and Game Design

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Pressure garments for use in the treatment of hypertrophic scars – an evaluation of current construction techniques in NHS hospitals

Cited by 49 publications

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Fitted Pressure Garment of Assessment of Scar Thickness on Third-Degree Burns through Ultrasonic Measurement

Fitted Pressure Garment of Assessment of Scar Thickness on Third-Degree Burns through Ultrasonic Measurement

A New Invention Method to Determine the Reduction Factor for Low Fabric Tension Properties for Head Garment Fabrication

The Pressure Comfort Sensation of Female’s Body Parts Caused by Compression Garment

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