OBJECTIVES To improve arterial catheter (AC) securement and reduce AC failure; to assess feasibility of a large randomised controlled trial. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A four-arm, parallel, randomised, controlled, non-blinded pilot trial with 195 intensive care patients taking part, in a tertiary referral hospital in Brisbane, Australia from May to November 2012. INTERVENTIONS Standar...

Postamputation management is an important determinant of recovery from amputation. However, consensus on the most effective postoperative management strategies for individuals undergoing transtibial amputation (TTA) is lacking. Dressings can include simple soft gauze dressings, thigh-high rigid cast dressings, shorter removable rigid dressings, and prefabricated pneumatic dressings. Postoperati...

Massive haemorrhage still accounts for up to 40% of mortality after traumatic injury. The importance of limiting blood loss after injury in order to prevent its associated complications has led to rapid advances in the development of dressings for haemostatic control. Driven by recent military conflicts, there is increasing evidence to support their role in the civilian prehospital care environ...

Bulky dressings are uncomfortable, can be constrictive and affect flap viability, obscure the surgical field, and are disconcerting to the patient and family. When a facelift is performed in conjunction with full-face laser resurfacing, the external dressings can abrade the raw skin, contributing to delayed healing or scarring. No evidence shows that using post facelift dressings prevents hemat...

     Nowadays, hydrogels are widely used as wound dressings in biomedical applications. Similar to other types of the moist (wet) wound dressings, it is necessary to have sufficient information about their dehydration kinetics during the pre-usage period (e.g. storage duration) and also the wound healing process. In this work, hydrogel wound dressings based on polyvinyl alcohol were prepared by...

Introduction Wound dressings that adhere to the wound surface can disrupt the wound bed and destroy newly formed, healthy tissue on removal, resulting in a disturbed, rough surface. This often happens with simple gauze pad. To avoid conglutination with the wound, e.g. combined fleece compresses possess a micro-porous polyester foil or impregnated gauze is used. So far, it hasn’t been studied wh...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of antimicrobial silver-donating dressings for venous leg ulcers compared with simple non-adherent (also known as low-adherent) dressings. DESIGN A pragmatic, prospective randomised controlled trial (RCT) and cost-effectiveness analysis of silver-donating versus low-adherent dressings in the treatment of venous leg ulcers. A non-ra...

antibiotic resistance to microorganisms is one of the major problems faced in the field of wound care in burns patients. silver nanoparticles have come up as potent antimicrobial agent and are being evaluated in diverse medical applications ranging from silver based dressings to silver coated medical devices. we aimed in present study to test the release of nanosilver from nanosilver wound dres...

The evolution of surgical dressings is traced from 1600 B.C. to A.D. 1944. The availability of an increasing variety of man-made fibres and films from 1944 onwards has stimulated work on wound dressings, and some of the more important contributions, both clinical and experimental, are discussed. The functions of a wound dressing and the properties which the ideal wound dressing should possess a...