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Abstract
Introduction
Healthy life has become an important factor in health management. Marjorie Gordon introduced a formal framework for assessing functional health patterns (FHPs) under eleven headings in 1982. Rather than treating the illness or disease, nursing care is aimed at maintaining or improving the human’s functional status in each of the eleven categories.
Surgery on the gastrointestinal tract is always invasive to some degree. Healing a wound is an energy requiring process that often requires adjunctive therapies in addition to wound care products to achieve success.
Ultrasound is able to identify dermal structures with improved resolution, thereby offering a potentially more accurate visualization of deep dermal microcirculation and to analyze the tissue patterns of healing wounds.
It is important for nurses to know about the various forms of cutaneous techniques (acupressure and TENS), the evidence for and against the use of some of these therapies, and the legal risks posed by patients’ use of these therapies. Using functional health patterns, a method of holistic assessment that provides information from a nursing rather than a medical perspective can provide the patient with a good experience of recovery
Aim of the study
The aim of the current study was to compare between two cutaneous stimulation techniques on wound healing, related pain and functional health patterns of patients with abdominal surgery.