Traditional dressings mainly consist of dry gauze and oil gauze. New dressings can promote wound healing, reduce pain, and improve patient comfort. Compared with traditional dressings, their replacement frequency is lower, which can greatly save manpower.
An important function of modern wound dressings is that they replace the important functions of damaged skin and continue to function until wound healing and skin lesion healing. It can: resist mechanical factors (such as dirt, collisions, inflammation, etc.), resist pollution and chemical stimuli, prevent secondary infections, prevent dryness and fluid loss (electrolyte loss), prevent heat loss, and in addition to comprehensive protection of the wound, actively affect the wound healing process through debridement, creating a microenvironment that promotes wound healing.
Structure and composition:
It is mainly composed of polyurethane foam, and different models contain polyurethane film, adhesive, isolation film and other structures.
Applicable scope:
Used to cover non chronic wounds on the body surface and absorb wound exudates.