Guidelines for safe negative-pressure wound therapy By Ron Rock MSN, RN, ACNS-BC Since its introduction almost 20 years ago, negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has become a leading technology in the care and management of acute, chronic, dehisced, traumatic wounds; pressure ulcers; diabetic...
Wound dressingsare an important part of surgical site care. Ideally a bandage should be placed over thewoundwhile the sterile field is still in place. The patient is instructed to leave the dressing undisturbed for at least 48 hours, which allows a degree ofepithelializationto take place and se...
Evidence shows that inappropriate and unnecessary dressing changes can have a negative impact on both patient wellbeing and healthcare resources (Lindholm and Searle, 2016). Local wound care formularies can streamline and guide the pro...
Arthur Siegel, in Palliative Care, 2007 Wound Care During the last hours of life, wound care focuses exclusively on comfort, not healing. Minimize the frequency of dressing changes. Use nonstick, pain‐reducing dressings (e.g., hydrogels and alginates). Control infections with topical ...
The guidelines should be sufficiently detailed to be clinically useful. Further information is always available in other publications and journals such as the British National Formulary (BNF), the Drug Tariff, model GP formularies [1] , the Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin and national wound care ...
However, the details of the materials used were left to the discretion of the treating health care team as per routine care at their center. Details of each dressing applied in the trial were recorded and classified according to British National Formulary classification. NPWT Group The NPWT ...