Using the translucent membrane for wound dressings remained a fairly common practice until concerns about disease transmission interfered.

An incredible new study has demonstrated the potential of a wound dressing that can fight bacterial infections using a weak electrical field. Offering a novel way to battle antibiotic resistant ...

"It solves current mechanical and physical limitations in wound-dressing techniques and gives physicians a new and more effective platform for treating burns and bedsores." ...

Dressing is then applied over the wound and medical personnel monitor the wound by removing the dressing to allow observation for signs of infection like swelling, redness, and heat.

It is described in a paper (“Chitosan-Containing Hydrogel Wound Dressings Prepared by Radiation Technique”) published in the May issue of Radiation Physics and Chemistry.

Abstract This article, the second in a two-part series on asepsis, provides a step-by-step guide to using an aseptic technique to change a simple wound ...

Their wound dressing targets the molecular signals that perpetuate the loop. "We want to guide a wound out of the inflammatory state and give it the right instructions for healing," says Emiroglu.

A research team from Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a bacterial cellulose (BC)-based hemostatic dressing that promises quick and sustained ...

Group of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania are developing new generation sponge-like wound dressings with hyaluronic acid. Antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory ...

Dressings for wound treatment have been used for several decades, however, it is in more recent years that antimicrobial compounds have been incorporated.

Biological wound dressings--such as artificial skin and collagen--help shorten hospital stays because they're better able to speed the healing process and improve patient care.

This article, the second in a two-part series on asepsis, provides a step-by-step guide to using an aseptic technique to change a simple wound dressing, applying the principles of asepsis discussed in ...