Wound healing is a dynamic and complex process which requires suitable environment to promote healing process. With the advancement in technology, more than 3000 products have been developed to treat different types of wounds by targeting various aspects of healing process. The present review traces the history of dressings from its earliest inception to the current status and also discusses th...

Composite Wound Dressings In article 2202685 by Peng Yan, Xinguo Hou, and co-workers, a novel sandwich-structured composite wound dressing (SCWD), integrating superlyophobic polydimethylsiloxane layer, superlyophilic gauze lyophobic PDMS with particular unidirectional drainage capability anti-adhesion properties, is presented. The application of SCWDs can reduce infection, avoid tissue avulsion...

A fast and effective wound healing process would substantially decrease medical costs, wound care supplies, and hospitalization significantly improving the patients' quality of life. The search for effective therapeutic approaches seems to be imperative in order to avoid the aggravation of chronic wounds. In spite of all the efforts that have been made during the recent years towards the develo...

Management of the diabetic foot is often problematic, particularly as the diabetic patient is prone to sub-clinical infections. This article reviews diabetic foot ulceration and its treatment and describes some of the commonly associated complications of these chronic wounds. It is proposed that highly hydrophobic dressings are of value in reducing the bacterial colonization of ulcers, and an e...

Corethium 2 has been known to be a valuable biological dressing which encourages re-epithelization in cases of tissue loss, especially in varicose ulcers. It ensures a superior quality of healed tissue even in difficult chronic cases. It also reduces the overall treatment time and can be used as an out-patient dressing.

In a randomised, double blind, controlled study the ability of 5% lignocaine ointment to reduce the behavioural response to heel lance in 30 healthy neonates was assessed. Five per cent lignocaine ointment applied to the heel under an occlusive dressing for one hour before heel prick did not reduce the infants' behavioural response to the heel prick procedure.

The antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a major concern to wound care because of their ability to resist many of the antibiotics used today to treat infections. Consequently, other antimicrobials, in particular ionic silver, are considered ideal topical agents for effectively helping to manage and prevent local infections. Little is known about the antimicrobial efficacy of ionic silver on antibi...