BACKGROUND Despite a lack of evidence supporting their use, silver dressings are often used with negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). This study investigates the effectiveness of silver dressings to reduce bacteria in contaminated wounds when used with NPWT. METHODS Complex orthopedic wounds were created on the proximal left legs of anesthetized goats. The wounds were inoculated with eithe...

Nearly 1% of population is affected with burn trauma annually. Among patients seeking advanced medical care almost 8% require hospital stay. Most burns are superficial and do not cause full thickness damage to the skin. Standard topical treatment of burn wounds with creams and ointments requires frequent dressings' changes. The healing process is long and expensive. The technological revolution...

Wound dressings represent a part of the management of diabetic foot ulceration. Ideally, dressings should alleviate symptoms, provide wound protection, and encourage healing. No single dressing fulfills all the requirements of a diabetic patient with an infected foot ulcer. Dressings research in this area is generally poor. However, each category of dressings has particular characteristics that...

Burns are a leading cause of non-natural death in South African infants and children. Conventional care of partial-thickness burns often requires painful, time consuming and costly twice-daily dressing changes to clean the wound and apply antimicrobial topical agents. A new topical nanocrystalline silver-coated NS dressing (Acticoat; Smith & Nephew) has been developed and is the first-line trea...

PURPOSE Antimicrobial wound dressings are becoming more popular and are routinely used in the treatment of chronic and problematic wounds. Despite the ever-growing number and types of these antimicrobial products, many practitioners often do not report significant clinical differences between various common antimicrobial wound dressings despite wide variations in cost. Although these dressings ...

BACKGROUND The treatment of burn wounds is still a challenge regarding the management of antiseptic wound conditioning. Especially, in the United States, silver-containing dressings, such as Acticoat and Aquacel are frequently used. Because silver-containing dressings have well-known drawbacks such as an antimicrobial lack against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, we sought to develop an alternative dres...

Aims: To evaluate the efficacy of Silvercel® Non-Adherent dressings on various wound types. Methods: Silvercel Non-Adherent was applied to 26 patients with either systemic or locally infected wounds, critically colonised wounds or wounds at high risk of developing infection, i.e. those with a history of recurrent infection or known associated comorbidities. The dressing was applied for up to 12...