I think anyone who deals with patients with wounds will agree that selecting the right wound dressings and bandages is crucial to wound healing. It may also be the most challenging part of wound management! With so many choices in wound dressings and bandages, it’s easy to become confused. To simplify matters, there are a…
Composite wound dressings combine different types of dressings with several functions in one single dressing that can address different needs. They can be used as a primary and/or secondary dressing and feature an absorptive layer, and a strike-through barrier. Composite Wound Dressings Are Versatile These dressings are versatile and convenient offering options for both partial…
Wound Healing Products Think you’ve seen or heard about them all? Here are some wound healing products that you may not know about. MediHoney Calcium Alginate dressing You’ve probably heard about the use of sterile medical-grade honey for treating wounds, but you may not have seen it combined into a wound healing product like this…
Because wound management is such an exciting and dynamic area, many wound care product manufacturers are competing to offer products that offer demonstrable and reproducible benefits in patients. There is, however, a relatively select group of leading manufacturers that dominate the market, with the resources available to undertake large research and development programs (see Figure)….
Wound care in today’s world consists of a complicated decision-making process that must take several entities into account: the patient/client and the practitioner must work together to decide on a dressing protocol that meets the needs of both. In addition, needs of the practitioner’s employer, whether this be a home care agency, a hospital or…
Many wound dressings fall into standard categories; foams, hydrogels, and hydrocolloids for example. Although different dressings within these categories have slightly different features, all dressings within a category offer broadly similar properties. These dressings can all be placed on a continuum of occlusion ranging from gauze dressing at the least occlusive end to latex at…
There are more than 3,000 types of wound dressing available on the market today, and more are being launched every day. Although there are a number of protocols and algorithms available to help with the choice of wound dressing, and individual facilities are likely to have their own dressings of choice, the decision can still…
Early pre-clinical and clinical research in the 1960s started to define the idea of moist wound healing and the benefit in optimizing wound healing. The concept that a wound that is kept optimally moist will have better outcomes than one that is allowed to dry out. Moist Wound Care Dressings The concept of moist wound…
Although honey has been used in wound management for centuries, and is mentioned in the Koran as a medicine for all disease, its popularity declined with the increasing availability of modern antibiotics, antiseptics and improved surgical techniques. However, with the continuing battle against wound infection and interest in the antimicrobial properties – honey in wound…
To some, nanotechnology sounds new and exciting; to others it sounds threatening. However, the truth is that nanotechnology is already with us. Indeed, wound management is actually one clinical application that has so far gained most from this technology. Silver Nanoparticles We are all familiar with the use of silver as an antimicrobial agent in…
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