Wound Care ManagementPatient Engagementleg ulcercompression treatmentsinterventional treatmentshealthcare professional
What follow up care will I need for a Venous Leg Ulcer?
Venous ulcers are a chronic sore occurring in up to 1-2% of the population causing significant pain. In this video, Professor Alun tells us that patients with an active leg ulcer require frequent follow up by a healthcare professional whereas a healed leg ulcer patient should visit a healthcare professional every year.
Transcript (auto-generated)
This transcript was generated automatically and may contain errors.
If you have got an active leg ulcer, you require regular follow-up by a healthcare professional to advise you with respect to your compression and your interventional treatments. If you have a leg ulcer that has healed, then it is probably important that you are seen either six monthly or yearly by a health care professional to ensure that all is progressing or if you are not being regularly followed up but are wearing your compression hosiery that you have a contact that you can engage with if you have the first signs of a new leg ulcer appearing. you
Health Shared
Comments