Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Comparing Alginate Silver Dressing with Silver Zinc Sulfadiazine Cream in the Treatment of Pressure Ulcers
An 84-year-old female with underlying hypertension, dyslipidemia, and old ischemic stroke (). She had suffered from a grade III sacral pressure ulcer for 5 months. She was treated with alginate silver dressing. Eight weeks after treatment, the wound size had been reduced from 20 cm2 to 12 cm2.