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Meral Karakaya Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Nursing
Department of Nursing, Balikesir Ataturk City Hospital, Turkey
Biography
Meral Karakaya has completed her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Erzurum Ataturk University, Turkey. She has 20 years of nursing experience and specialty in ICU and wound care, earned her qualification of stomatherapy from Ankara University.
Publications
Short Communication Open Access
Safe practices of complex wounds at home during a pandemic
Author(s): Meral Karakaya
Aim: Wound management has been very challenging during the Covid-19 pandemic. Surgical field infections are crucial and serious issues of surgery as they increase mortality, morbidity length of inpatient stay and hospitalisation costs. Our study on patients who developed surgical field infections and wound management at home during pandemic has been very successful.
Fact: 51-year-old female patient with diabetes mellitus (DM), venous and liver insufficiency, develops slough tissue on the wound site after breast cancer mastectomy operation. A combination of cadoxemer iodine and single-use negative pressure wound therapy is applied. Single use NPWTs are wearable ... view more»
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