Selecting the Right Wound Dressings and Bandages

Selecting the Right Wound Dressings and Bandages

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…

Understanding Composite Wound Dressings

Understanding Composite Wound Dressings

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…

The Best Wound Healing Products You’ve Never Heard Of

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…

Recommended Wound Care Product Manufacturers

Recommended Wound Care Product Manufacturers

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)….

Smart Wound Dressings

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…

Wound Dressings & Wound Healing – Changing Philosophy

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…

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The Resurgence of Honey in Wound Management

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…