James Paget Central Treatment Suite Manager and Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist Tina Dyble and her team have received an award for their contribution to an international research project to find the best wound care for patients.
The award - from Molnlycke health care, a medical technology company that focuses on wound care, operating room solutions, gloves and antiseptics - comes following the James Paget’s inclusion in the company’s ‘Unlocking Best Practices: Real World Cases and Quality Enhancement’ report which includes cases from around the world.
The report features different patients and different wounds, and aims to highlight the best use of treatments and practices to help hospitals and healthcare facilities around the world treat patients in the most effective way.
Tina – who has been a qualified nurse for over 35 years, 15 of them in orthopaedics and tissue viability - is featured as a key contributor to the report, along with other international specialists such as clinical counterparts in Portugal and Finland.
Tina said; “We took part in a variety of studies and trials, with patients consenting to having their treatment included in the report. We mainly looked at haematomas (a pooling of blood outside of the blood vessels) on lower legs, with our featured case study being a 79-year-old woman who sustained injuries after a fall at home.”
The team successfully used a product called Exufiber – a gelling fibre dressing – to remove dead tissue and prepare the wound for negative pressure wound therapy.