Short-stretch bandage

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Short-stretch bandages are made of brown-colored cotton and are only slightly stretchy. They are used in compression therapy to apply bandages with low elasticity. Such compression bandages reduce edema of the legs, thereby reducing existing pain while promoting the healing of chronic wounds .

Rolled-up short-stretch bandages with "mothers-in-law"

construction

A short-stretch bandage is 5 m long and is stored rolled up. Rolled-up short-stretch bandages with bandage clips - so-called "mothers-in-law" - are fixed by the manufacturer, the metal hooks of which pierce the bandage fabric and thus secure the bandages rolled up under tension. Due to the risk of injury, such “mothers-in-law” are not used on patients. Short-stretch bandages 6, 8, 10 and 12 cm wide are available from various manufacturers.

investment

There are a number of system technologies for creating compression bandages with short-stretch bandages, which are named after their respective developers, including bandaging techniques according to Altenkämper, Fischer, Schneider and Sigg . In Germany, numerous variants of the Pütter Association are particularly widespread. The term puttering is therefore often used in everyday practice as a description of the nursing activity of applying a short-stretch bandage.

Importance in compression therapy

Short-stretch bandages are used in the first phase of compression therapy, the decongestion phase. After the decongestion of the leg edema, the compression power is usually after two to four weeks compression stockings changed.

Modern alternatives

As an alternative to bandages with short-stretch bandages, pre-fabricated bandage systems are also used in the decongestion phase of compression therapy. These are pre- made binding sets , which consist of at least one cushioned bandage and a self-adhesive short-stretch bandage - a so-called cohesive bandage - but can also contain more bandages. Tie systems that consist of four components have proven to be superior to short-stretch bandages in the care of people with venous leg ulcers . In contrast to bandages with short-stretch bandages, the application pressure of which is unknown and, depending on the user, can differ greatly from the therapy-relevant pressure value, some pre-fabricated bandage systems also provide information about the pressure value reached below the bandage through special markings.

Another alternative to compression bandages with short-stretch bandages are the adaptive compression bandages .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefanie Reich-Schupke , Markus Stücker : Modern Compression Therapy A Practical Guide . Viavital Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-934371-50-7 , pp. 68-70
  2. ^ S. O'Meara, J. Tierney, N. Cullum et al .: "Four layer bandage compared with short stretch bandage for venous leg ulcers. Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialks with data from individual patients ", Cochrane Review 2009, BMJ2009-338: b1344
  3. ↑ M. Weindorf, I. Stoffels, J. Klode, J. Dissemond: "Influence of visual control systems on the pressure of compression bandages - first results of a prospective clinical investigation of various user collectives ", Phlebology, 2012; 41, pp. 18-24

literature

  • Kerstin Protz, Joachim Dissemond, Knut Kröger: Compression therapy An overview for the practice . Springer, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-49743-2 .