Penggunaan Balutan Modern Memperbaiki Proses Penyembuhan Luka Diabetik

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic carbohydrate metabolism disturbance with many long term complications. One of its complications is diabetic wound risk to amputation. Wound care is nursing intervention aimed to prevent the risk of amputation. A cost effective evaluation is needed to identify the most benefecial wound care. A quasi-experiment comparing modern and conventional with pretest and post test with control group design was conducted with 16 selected patients. The outcome measure is wound healing process score based on Bates-Jansen wound assessment while the cost measured is wound care material cost. An independent t test with 95% confidence interval was performed to evaluate the difference of healing process and cost effectivity between modern and conventional dressing. The result showed a significant differences of healing process score (p=0,002) and cost effectivity (p=0,031) between modern and conventional dressing application for diabetic wound. It can be concluded that the application of modern dressing significantly improve the healing process in diabetic wound but with higher treatment cost.