Introduction: Knowledge of the greater efficiency of wound healing in a moist environment dates back to the early 1960s, when Winter [1] first demonstrated significantly faster wound epithelisation in occluded experimental wounds in pigs as compared to air-exposed controls. In 1963, the beneficial effect of occlusion was also established in human wounds [2]. This discovery gained considerable a...

The ultimate goal in the management of burn wounds is to obtain physiological closure in the shortest period of time. Traditional burn wound management involves cleansing, debridement and provision of a moist environment to encourage the process of natural healing. Hence, an ideal dressing material has to maintain a moist environment, act as a bacterial barrier, and as a medium for free exchang...

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...

BACKGROUND The inadequate application of postoperative dressings can lead to significant complications, including skin injuries, compartment syndromes, and potential limb loss. To our knowledge, the occurrence of post laparoscopic cholecystectomy related skin complications have not yet been reported in the peer-reviewed literature. CASE PRESENTATION Following laparoscopic cholecystectomy for ...

In recent years, adhesive wound dressings have been increasingly applied postoperatively because of their ease of use as they can be kept in place without having to cut and apply surgical tapes and they can cover a wound securely. However, if a wound dressing strongly adheres to the wound, a large amount of stratum corneum is removed from the newly formed epithelium or healthy periwound skin. V...

This article is reprinted from the British Journal of Community Nursing, Vol 20, No 9, Community Wound Care September 2015 Dear Editor, In spite of many years of research and teaching, I have come to realise that some clinical practices are difficult to eradicate. One particular practice is the use of multilayered combinations of wound dressings often made up of components with very different f...