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Venous leg-ulcer management: archived-source boundary

A source-status summary explaining why the attached society records do not support a current active venous-leg-ulcer management pathway.

JurisdictionUnited States
Source check2026-08-20
Clinical reviewiatroX editorial team · Clinical editorial review · reviewed 2026-08-20 · due 2027-08-20
AudienceUnited States healthcare professionals
This is an iatroX educational summary of named United States sources, not an official guideline. It does not replace the complete source documents, local policy, specialist advice or clinical judgement. Use the named authority, current FDA labeling, applicable state law, payer rules and local protocol where relevant.

Scope of this summary

This educational page records the status and boundaries of three US society sources associated with the venous-leg-ulcer topic. The dedicated 2014 SVS/AVF venous-leg-ulcer guideline is archived. The newer multisociety source focuses on lower-extremity varicose veins, and the IDSA source concerns skin and soft-tissue infection generally. They are not combined here to create an active-ulcer management guideline.
sources for this section:SVS/AVF venous ulcers 2014SVS/AVF/AVLS 2022–23

The Bottom Line

  • The current SVS library identifies Management of Venous Leg Ulcers, published in 2014, as an archived guideline.
  • Archived status does not establish a current recommendation for compression, a pressure range, a perfusion threshold or a contraindication.
  • The 2022–2023 varicose-vein guideline has a different primary scope and is not treated as a replacement active-ulcer guideline.
  • The 2014 IDSA SSTI guideline has a different infection scope and is not treated as an authority for routine venous-ulcer wound management.
  • The attached records do not jointly establish a current diagnostic, dressing, debridement, mobility, nutrition, edema, dermatitis or healing-surveillance pathway.
sources for this section:SVS/AVF venous ulcers 2014SVS/AVF/AVLS 2022–23

How to use these source records

1
Read the dedicated venous-ulcer record as evidence of its title, issuing societies, 2014 date and archived library status only.
2
Read the varicose-vein record within its stated lower-extremity varicose-vein scope rather than extrapolating it to every active venous ulcer.
3
Read the IDSA record within its general SSTI scope rather than using it to construct ongoing wound care, perfusion assessment or venous intervention.
4
Keep compression, arterial assessment, duplex investigation, wound products and procedural claims out of this page unless a current exact active-ulcer authority supports them.
5
Keep institutional wound protocols and payer requirements distinct from the national source-status facts summarized here.
sources for this section:SVS/AVF venous ulcers 2014SVS/AVF/AVLS 2022–23

Clinical content not established

  • This summary provides no instruction to start, withhold or select compression and gives no ankle-pressure, toe-pressure or index threshold.
  • It provides no dressing, debridement, antimicrobial, imaging, biopsy, referral or venous-procedure recommendation.
  • It does not establish how to distinguish venous, arterial, neuropathic, pressure, inflammatory, malignant or mixed-cause ulcers.
  • Acute bleeding, infection, ischemia and other urgent complications require current condition-specific pathways outside this source-status page.
sources for this section:SVS/AVF venous ulcers 2014IDSA SSTI 2014

Localization

The only dedicated US society source attached to this topic is archived; that status is surfaced directly rather than obscured by recommendations borrowed from adjacent sources. US wound-service access, product coverage and procedure authorization vary.
sources for this section:SVS/AVF venous ulcers 2014SVS/AVF/AVLS 2022–23

Source documents

Use the linked source documents for complete recommendations, evidence grading, exclusions and implementation detail.

  1. Society for Vascular Surgery and American Venous ForumManagement of Venous Leg Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Society for Vascular Surgery and the American Venous ForumDOI 10.1016/j.jvs.2014.04.049; PMID 24974070 · 2014 guideline retained in the official SVS guideline library as an archived guideline; status checked 2026-08-20 · published 2014-06-25 · accessed 2026-08-20
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  2. Society for Vascular Surgery, American Venous Forum, and American Vein and Lymphatic SocietyClinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Varicose Veins of the Lower Extremities, Parts I and IIPart I DOI 10.1016/j.jvsv.2022.09.004; Part II DOI 10.1016/j.jvsv.2023.08.011 · Part I published 2022; Part II published 2023 · published 2023-08-29 · accessed 2026-08-20
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  3. Infectious Diseases Society of AmericaPractice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: 2014 UpdateDOI 10.1093/cid/ciu296; correction DOI 10.1093/cid/civ114 · published 2014-07-15 · updated 2015-05-01 · accessed 2026-08-20
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