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Have you ever been in a situation where you have an order to pack a wound, a tunneling wound, for example, or an undermined wound with some alginate? And ideally, you want to use the nice rope alginate or the nice rope hydrofiber, but unfortunately you don't have that available. I have one quick little strategy that you might consider, and that is if you have, for example, just a plain, say, a 4x4 or 4x5 inch piece of alginate or hydrofiber, and you really want to pack it into a tunnel or an undermined area in a wound.
One quick strategy that you can use is to basically cut it so that you can use it in that fashion. And so what I've done here is I have cut a piece of four by four or four by five and basically cut it in such a way that I'm cutting, as you can see here, up one side and down the other so that as a result, I have this nice piece of packing material that I can now use to fill in that wound defect within the wound bed. So just a quick little technique that I hope might be helpful for you.
