Compression therapy pilot project underway.The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC See adaptive cruise control. ) is funding a compression therapy Compression therapy may refer to:
The compression therapy pilot is being run in Auckland, Palmerston North Palmerston North, city (1996 pop. 73,095), S North Island, New Zealand. It is a transportation and farm-marketing center with diverse industries. The city's agricultural college, founded in 1926, became Massey Univ. in 1964. and Christchurch. Programme director in primary care with ACC's Healthwise, Alison Randall, said ACC spends around $2 million a year to treat claimants with leg ulcers. The ACC wanted these people to have a "best-practice service" to aid healing. "We are aware there is a need for a high level of skill in the practice of compression therapy and want to define that skill set for our claimants with leg ulcers," Randall said. The pilot project is being undertaken within a primary health care organisation in Auckland; within a general practice setting in Palmerston North; and within a community nursing service, the Nurse Maude service, in Christchurch. "This will allow us to evaluate the project's effectiveness in a variety of settings, helping to determine service specifications for a national roll-out." Funding for claimants ACC has agreed to pay for the following for each claimant CLAIMANT. In the courts of admiralty, when the suit is in rem, the cause is entitled in the Dame of the libellant against the thing libelled, as A B v. Ten cases of calico and it preserves that title through the whole progress of the suit. on the pilot: * initial assessment, investigation and treatment plan, which includes an extended and complex assessment including a Doppler ultrasound Doppler ultrasound An imaging technique using ultrasound that can detect moving liquids. Mentioned in: Priapism Doppler ultrasound ; * initial treatment, ie application of the compression bandaging; * follow-up treatment by a nurse specialist or practice nurse; and * peer review of treatment if heating is not achieved in 20 visits and a request for an extension of treatment is required. Nurses were asked to present proposals to ACC, with the outcome being healing of leg ulcers within 20 visits. "From the nurses' proposals we were able to formulate a service specification that identified the service to be purchased and the agreed outcome." Randall said there were no formal results as yet but anecdotal evidence anecdotal evidence, n information obtained from personal accounts, examples, and observations. Usually not considered scientifically valid but may indicate areas for further investigation and research. from ACC's clinical advisers was very positive. Nurse practitioner nurse practitioner n. Abbr. NP A registered nurse with special training for providing primary health care, including many tasks customarily performed by a physician. and wound care specialist Jenny Phillips is working with the Manawatu Independent Practice Association on the pilot project. Much of her work has been educating practice nurses in compression bandaging. If the results of the pilot project were successful, ACC would took at a national roll-out identifying education, skill set, locations, treatment guidelines and outcomes, Randall said. |
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