Wound Dressings

Holly M. Hovan MSN, RN-BC, APRN, CWOCN-AP You might notice the hospital halls seem a little quieter around the holidays, the unit census may be down, and patients may be asking about their discharg...

By Beth Hawkins Bradley RN, MN, CWON How did you acquire your knowledge and skills around the application of NPWT dressings? Most of us learned by observing another clinician doing dressing applica...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...