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Dressing wounds

Primary Health Care, 1998
This article describes the choice and method of application of wound dressing in a variety of situations. The types of wounds covered include those in awkward areas, cavity wounds and fungating wounds. The problems of patients with allergies to wound dressings are also discussed.
M, Jones, J, Davey, M, Champion
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Wound dressings

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2003
There are currently hundreds of dressings on the market to aid in wound management. Before selecting a dressing for a particular wound, a practitioner must assess carefully the needs of the wound to understand which dressing would provide maximal benefit.
Gerald T, Lionelli, W Thomas, Lawrence
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Wound dressings

Primary Health Care, 2001
Each child, wound and wound site is unique and these factors will impact on the type of dressing the nurse decides to use. Wound dressings broadly fall into a number of classes, depending on the material they are made of. The nurse should be aware of the particular characteristics of each class of dressing and the impact these can have on wound healing.
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Wound Dressing

Dermatologic Clinics, 1993
Dressings are applications for wounds, burns, and ulcers. Dressings should be regarded as supportive of healing; they are desirable but not essential in an emergency. This article reviews measurement of wound healing and the functions of wound dressings. A variety of dressings and their respective advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
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Wound Care Dressings

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1996
Significant advances in wound healing technologies dramatically enhance the health provider's ability to achieve optimal wound healing. Maximal success in treating both pressure and skin ulcers, however, remains with the fundamental principles of moist wound healing, pressure relief, local and systemic infection control and adequate nutrition.
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Chronic wounds dressing

Nursing Standard, 2016
Essential facts A chronic wound is usually defined as any wound that has not healed for six weeks or more. In the UK, about 200,000 people are experiencing a chronic wound at any one time, with an estimated annual cost to the NHS of around £4 billion. According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) the selection of dressings ...
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Wound Dressings

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 1999
Choosing the appropriate wound dressing is critical to positive patient outcomes. This article helps the nurse choose dressings based on principles of wound care management and comprehensive assessment. Tools are provided to choose the different products that can be used as the wound progresses through the stages of healing.
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Dressing cavity wounds

Nursing Standard, 1990
Cavity wounds should be dressed with specially developed pastes and gels rather then the traditional ribbon gauze dressing, a clinical nurse specialist has claimed.
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Wound dressings

2021
Abstract The plastic surgeon is often called upon to manage the complex or chronic wound. While an understanding of the principles of surgical debridement and reconstruction is naturally required for plastic surgical practice, it behoves the surgeon to also have a thorough understanding of the non-surgical aspects of wound management ...
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