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Page 12 of 18 Reference: Marilen Cabrera, RN Home Health Care Chicago, MN
Case study 9: Radiation burn
At presentation,December 10, 2015
December 16, 2015 December 28, 2016
February 3, 2016January 14, 2016
Enluxtra™ Self-Adaptive Wound Dressing Clinical Results
Patient: The patient is an 80-year-old female, non-ambulatory. Co-morbidities: hypertension, chronic kidney disease, neurofibromatosis, hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, glaucoma, GERD, anemia, urinary incontinence.
Wound and previous treatment: A radiation burn of the right buttock started during the 4th week of the patient’s radiation treatment. No previous wound treatment was administered.
Enluxtra treatment: Enluxtra dressing treatment started in December, 2015 with daily dressing changes during the patient’s last week of radiation treatment. Enluxtra dressing change frequency was reduced to 1-2 per week from December 16 to completion.
February 3: Wound is healed. January 14: Wound size is 7cm x 4cm x 0.1cm.
December 28: Wound size is 11cm x 7cm x 0.1cm.
December 16: Wound size is 16cm x 14cm x 0.1cm.
At presentation, December 10: Wound size is 15cm x 11cm x 0.1cm.
Conclusions and clinical outcome:
Enluxtra applications on this radiation burn rapidly reduced the wound size and provided non-medicated pain relief which resuted in reduced dosage of pain medication and decreased discomfort for this patient. Enluxtra used for burns (as well as wounds of other etiologies) also improves the appearance of healed scars.
