Atraumatic dressings

The ability to remove a dressing without causing trauma to the wound and surrounding skin or pain to the patient is an important feature in the performance of that product. Over the years dressings with a variety of different types of wound contact layers have been developed that aim to reduce adherence to a drying wound. This article discusses the causes of traumatic injuries associated with the removal of dressings and proposes that the term 'atraumatic dressings' be adopted to describe products that do not cause such problems in clinical practice.

The article also contains a review of the literature relating to a new category of products, based upon soft silicone technology, which is claimed to impart properties to the dressing that makes them ideally suited for the treatment of most types of wounds where adherence or secondary trauma has been identified as a real or potential problem.
 

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