Department of Physiotherapy, Graduate Program in Physiotherapy, Federal University of Paraiba, João Pessoa, Brazil.
Graduate Program in Physiotherapy, Federal University of Paraiba, João Pessoa, Brazil.
J Wound Care. 2024 Apr 2;33(Sup4a):cxviii-cxxix. doi: 10.12968/jowc.2024.33.Sup4a.cxviii.
Accurate assessment of burn depth and burn wound healing potential is essential to determine early treatments. Infrared thermography (IRT) is a non-invasive and objective tool to do this. This systematic review evaluated the accuracy of IRT to determine burn wound healing potential.
This systematic review and meta-analysis used MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PEDro, DiTA and CENTRAL databases. IRT data were extracted from primary studies and categorised into four cells (i.e., true positives, false positives, true negatives and false negatives). Subgroup analysis was performed according to methods used to capture thermal images.
The search strategy identified 2727 publications; however, 15 articles were selected for review and 11 for meta-analysis. In our meta-analysis, the accuracy of IRT was 84.8% (63% sensitivity and 81.9% specificity).
IRT is a moderately accurate tool to identify burn depth and healing potential. Thus, IRT should be used carefully for evaluating burn wounds.
准确评估烧伤深度和烧伤创面愈合潜能对于确定早期治疗至关重要。红外热成像（IRT）是一种非侵入性和客观的评估工具。本系统评价评估了 IRT 评估烧伤创面愈合潜能的准确性。
本系统评价和荟萃分析使用了 MEDLINE、EMBASE、CINAHL、PEDro、DiTA 和 CENTRAL 数据库。从原始研究中提取 IRT 数据，并分为四个单元格（即真阳性、假阳性、真阴性和假阴性）。根据捕获热图像的方法进行了亚组分析。
搜索策略确定了 2727 篇出版物；然而，选择了 15 篇文章进行综述，11 篇进行荟萃分析。在我们的荟萃分析中，IRT 的准确性为 84.8%（63%的敏感性和 81.9%的特异性）。
IRT 是一种评估烧伤深度和愈合潜能的中等准确性工具。因此，IRT 在评估烧伤创面时应谨慎使用。
