Buruli ulcer (BU) is a tropical, infectious skin disease. The resulting ulcer can take a long time to heal, and a high standard of wound care is essential. Currently, the only dressing used for BU wound care is gauze, and its removal causes pain and bleeding. We performed a pilot implementation project using HydroTac(®) (HARTMANN, Heidenheim, Germany), a modern dressing combining foam with a hy...

Wound management represents a major clinical challenge on what concerns healing enhancement and pain control. The selection of an appropriate dressing plays an important role in both recovery and esthetic appearance of the regenerated tissue. Despite the wide range of available dressings, the progress in the wound care market relies on the increasing interest in using natural-based biomedical p...

BACKGROUND Surgical site infections (SSIs) are common, occurring in up to 25% of > 4 million operations performed in England each year. Previous trials of the effect of wound dressings on the risk of developing a SSI are of poor quality and underpowered. METHODS/DESIGN This study is a feasibility and pilot trial to examine the feasibility of a full trial that will compare simple dressings, no...

This article describes a single-centre, non-comparative evaluation set out to assess the clinical performance and patient acceptability of a new carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) wound dressing. Twenty patients in a community setting, aged between 34-97 years, were recruited. The progression of various types of wounds with different levels of exudate was documented over 4 weeks. No adherence to the...

Several researches have shown that negative-pressure wound dressings can secure split-thickness skin grafts and improve graft survival. However, in anatomically difficult body regions such as the perineum it is questionable whether these dressings have similar beneficial effects. In this study, we evaluated the effects of negative-pressure wound dressings on split-thickness skin grafts in the p...

Figure 1. Two-year-old boy with a giant congenital melanocytic nevus of the left buttock. Left, Center, Preoperative views. Right, Immediate view after excision and placement of the Integra bilayer matrix dressing. Figure 2. Left, Wound after removal of the silicone layer of the Integra bilayer matrix dressing. Right, Coverage of the wound with a split skin autograft.

Burn injuries remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality during modern military conflicts and peacekeeping operations. Considering that commercially available dressings are not designed to meet the challenges of treating combat burn wounds, DRDC Toronto has designed a novel, absorbent and medicated bi-layer wound dressing to address key requirements for treating external war wounds. ...

This article discusses the use of transparent film dressing in wound management. It focuses on one particular product, C-View (Maersk Medical), determining its efficacy through multiple case study review. C-View was found to be easy to use and cost-effective, both as a primary and secondary wound dressing.

OBJECTIVES Traumatic wounds and surgery inherently have their complications. Localized infections, wound dehiscence, and excessive wound leakage can be devastating to the patient with a prolonged recovery, but it is also costly to the hospital with an increased length of stay, extra workload, and dressing changes. The single use PICO (Smith and Nephew Healthcare, Hull, United Kingdom) negative ...