Abstract
North Kansas City Memorial Hospital selected a therapy team (a nurse, a physician, and a clinical engineer) to explore various methods of treating decubitus and other skin ulcers. The primary goal of the team was to find a technique that would be the most effective, and at the same time, least expensive to the patient and hospital. With few exceptions, the team found that most electromechanical devices used in treating decubitus ulcers were frequently cumbersome, required trained technicians to operate, and often involved patient transportation. Since all methods available to treat ulcers simply augment the body's normal healing process, the team believed that phototherapy would be the most acceptable and the least cumbersome and time-consuming. The therapeutic value of phototherapy is extensively documented in the literature. The in-
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