Venous Stasis Wounds

Venous wounds, also called venous stasis wounds or stasis ulcers, are wounds that form primarily on a person’s lower extremities. They usually are caused by an underlying condition that creates edema in the extremities.

Edema is excessive tissue fluid. It is caused by the circulatory system’s inability to fully return blood to the heart. When this happens, some seepage of blood may occur from the veins into surrounding tissue. That seepage is the edema.

Edema can be detected by gentle pressure of the fingers against the skin. If edema is present, this pressure may leave indentations in the skin for several seconds, even several minutes. Retained fluid can become so excessive that the skin becomes taut and such pressure indentations, or “pitting”, is not possible. Such a degree of edema inhibits healing, but healing may also be compromised by the inability of the circulatory system to do its job within the body (delivering healthy blood and returning fluid appropriately).

Proven Treatment for Venous Stasis Wounds

The TRUHEAL Wound Program is a proven method for healing chronic venous stasis wounds in every care setting, including the home. The TRUHEAL Wound Program is the outcome of exhaustive research in wound care outcomes by Advanced Healing Institute.

The program combines two breakthrough therapies with well-researched procedures to speed up the wound healing process, even when other treatments have failed. Innovative technologies include:

• TRUHEAL Electromagnetic Pulse Therapy (EMPT), a proprietary technology for directing a specific radio frequency signal to stimulate the proliferation of human fibroblast cells in chronic wounds.
• TRUHEAL Catalytic Nanosilver™ Solution, a revolutionary drug-free silver spray with a composition and method of action that makes it different than any other silver-based product.

More about Venous Wounds and Edema

Elimination of edema is the primary requirement for improving venous wounds. Unlike pressure wounds, diabetic wounds, or burns that are described by stage, category, or degree, venous wounds are described as either partial thickness or full thickness.

• Partial thickness wounds exhibit damage to the outer layer of the skin but not through the dermis – the layer of skin directly below the outer exposed layer.
• Full thickness wounds present with damage to the outer layer of skin, the dermis, and even deeper tissues, often reaching deeper structures such as connective tissue, muscle, even bone.

This thorough initial wound assessment or wound reassessment (as a component of a wound status change) is described in the AHI Assessment Guideline. It requires a detailed assessment of the whole patient and their history as well as other factors including duration of the wound, patient’s recollection of the causative factors, complaints of pain, fever, numbness or drainage.

To appropriately establish wound type and cause, a thorough wound assessment should be completed as required by state and federal guidelines. The Advanced Healing Institute Wound Assessment Guideline requires a detailed assessment of the whole patient and their history as well as other factors including duration of the wound, patient’s recollection of the causative factors, complaints of pain, fever, numbness or drainage.