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Wound Dressings

Topical Zinc Oxide and Wound Healing

April 27, 2017
By Aletha Tippett, MD Well, what a surprise to find that what you have been doing all along is really the right thing to do even though you didn’t know the reason. Always, over the years doing woun...

Traumatic, Full-Thickness Wounds: How an Advanced Dressing Can Help

November 9, 2023
A recent case presented in a poster at SAWC emphasizes the unique nature of traumatic, full-thickness wounds. Full-thickness wounds due to trauma, especially those left out to the open for extended pe...

What is a Foam Dressing?

November 29, 2017
By WoundSource Editors Wound dressings can accelerate the healing process by protecting the injury or wound from bacteria and creating an environment which supports healthy healing. Foam dressings ...

What is a Hydrocolloid Dressing?

March 3, 2016
By the WoundSource Editors Hydrocolloid dressings provide a moist and insulating healing environment which protects uninfected wounds while allowing the body's own enzymes to help heal wounds. Thes...

What is an Alginate Dressing?

September 29, 2017
By the WoundSource Editors Biodegradable alginate dressings made from seaweed date back at least fifty years and commercially available alginate has been available since 1983. Often used on wounds ...

What is an Occlusive Dressing?

March 8, 2016
By the WoundSource Editors Occlusive dressings are used for sealing particular types of wounds and their surrounding tissue off from air, fluids and harmful contaminants, such as viruses and bacter...

What is New in the 20th Edition of WoundSource

July 13, 2017
By Miranda Henry, Editorial Director of WoundSource Twenty years ago, WoundSource™ became the first-ever comprehensive wound care reference guide for clinicians. It contained just nine product cate...

What You Can Do to Control Wound Care Costs

May 16, 2014
By Aletha Tippett MD Welcome, Colton Mason, to the WoundSource blog forum. I enjoyed your opening blog on cost versus price and love your Healthcare Caffeine image. You are so correct, looking at o...

What You Need to Know About Clean and Sterile Techniques

December 11, 2020
By Margaret Heale, RN, MSc, CWOCN I had shopped before lockdown and had not needed to go to a supermarket for a while. Before my first big shopping event, I came across this online video: preventin...
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