Wound Care

Gauze Rolls Are Mainly Used for Wound Protection Nov 16, 2023

Gauze rolls products are used for first aid and dressing wounds. These gauze products used in the medical field to treat cut, cracked, scraped or burned skin, so it is very important to store them in sterile packaging to prevent the patient from infection. Gauze Roll is very common for treating wounds on the extremities. As long strips of gauze can be used to wrap arms, legs, wrists or similar body parts, and the product is used to protect wounds and can also be used to secure other dressings.Gauze rolls are often used to bandage wounds.Medical suppliers that sell gauze often offer gauze in different widths. This made doctors to use gauze rolls to treat a wide variety of injuries. For example, the 1 inch(2cm) wide gauze rolls that can be used to treat minor wounds and can be wrapped around smaller body parts such as fingers and toes. Small sized gauze rolls may also be used in pediatric medicine. Of course, wider gauze rolls can be used when treating and dressing larger wounds.Gauze ca...

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Long Cotton Wool Rolls as Compression Enhancers Nov 06, 2023

Background. Macrosclerotherapy in combination with compression has proven to be safe and effective in the treatment of varicose veins. Local compression is increased by pads, according to Laplace law. Firm rolls of cotton wool are fixed over the course of the entire vein to increase local compression and to reduce complications. Additional compression is given by a combination of a class I (daytime and nighttime) and class II (daytime only) medical compression hosiery. Purpose. To evaluate the effectiveness and side effects of sclerocompression therapy with cotton wool rolls in combination with medical compression hosiery. Method. Prospective study with 100 patients (120 legs) with primary varicose veins, which are treated with polidocanol as sclerosant with the empty vein technique. Immediately after the injection, a long cotton wool roll is placed over the entire vein and fixed. Additional compression is obtained with class I and class II medical compression hosiery. T...

Adhesive Bandage Oct 31, 2023

An adhesive bandage, also called a sticking plaster, medical plaster, or simply plaster in British English, is a small medical dressing used for injuries not serious enough to require a full-size bandage. They are also known by the genericized trademarks of Band-Aid (as "band-aid" or "band aid" in Australia, Canada, India and the US) or Elastoplast (in the UK). Function The adhesive bandage protects the wound and scab from friction, bacteria, damage, and dirt. Thus, the healing process of the body is less disturbed. Some of the dressings have antiseptic properties. An additional function is to hold the two cut ends of the skin together to make the healing process faster. Design An adhesive bandage is a small, flexible sheet of material which is sticky on one side, with a smaller, non-sticky, absorbent pad stuck to the sticky side. The pad is placed against the wound, and overlapping edges of the sticky material are smoothed down so they stick to the surrounding skin. Adhe...

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Medical Dressings

Wound dressing Oct 16, 2023

Wound dressing has been an important branch of biomedical materials research.Skin damage caused by abrasion after falling and clinical incision after surgery are the most common wounds in real life.Compared with the wounds at flat areas of human body, it is still challenging to treat the wounds at special areas such as joints, popliteal fossae, axillae, and muscle folds. Poor adhesive performance, difficult fixation, and incomplete coverage are the main reasons. Moreover, in clinic, most wounds are sterilized with 75% alcohol or iodine, followed by covering with cotton gauzes. Therefore, regular disinfection and dressing replacement are necessary due to lack of antibacterial property of cotton gauze. In addition, fixed cotton gauze dressing needs to be taped, and sometimes, the skin is allergic to tape material. To this end, designing a stretchable, adhesive, antibacterial, and biocompatible dressing is of great clinical significance. Hydrogels are a class of 3D network gels formed by ...

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Traritional wound dressing VS Modern wound dressing Oct 11, 2023

Wound, whether it is a minor cut or a major incision, it is important to care for it properly, part of this process includes wound dressing. Dressing is designed to be in contact with the wound, which is different from a bandage that holds the dressing in place. Traditional wound dressing products including gauze, lint, plasters, bandages (natural or synthetic) and cotton wool are dry and used as primary or secondary dressings for protecting the wound from contaminations [30]. Gauze dressings made out of woven and non woven fibres of cotton, rayon, polyesters afford some sort of protection against bacterial infection. Some sterile gauze pads are used for absorbing exudates and fluid in an open wound with the help of fibres in these dressings. These dressings require frequent changing to protect from maceration of healthy tissues. Gauze dressings are less cost effective. Due to excessive wound drainage, dressings become moistened and tend to become adherent to the wound making it...

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Bangdage-wrap the wound Dec 08, 2022

Bandaging is one of the key countermeasures for traumatic on-the-spot emergency treatment. In-time and proper banding can achieve the purpose of being oppressed and promoting blood circulation, reducing infection, protecting wounds, and reducing pain. So let's teach you the basic way of bandaging. Ring wrapping 1. Cover the wound with a sterile or clean medical dressing, and fix the medical dressing. 2. Open the gauze, wrap the first circle slightly obliquely, about 45 degrees; press the corner of the first circle obliquely into the ring circle and circle the second circle. 3. Wrap the pressure around the body 4-5 times, each circle covers the previous circle, and the gauze coiling range should exceed the edge of the auxiliary material. spiral wrap Operating procedures: 1. Cover the wound with a sterile or clean medical dressing, and fix the medical dressing. 2. First coil a few times according to the ring method. 3. Starting from the third circle, each circle covers one-third o...

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what's the difference with Gauze Swabs and Bandage Oct 21, 2022

Gauze, cotton gauze, tape with tape, tape, tape wrap, tape wrap so that there is wound infection; bandage wraps all gauze mainly and elastic cotton, and other non-tape is double tape for medical products, mainly For bandaging and immobilization of others. Difference one: Medical bandages are mainly divided into gauze bandages and elastic bandages. Medical gauze mainly refers to degreased gauze. Difference two: Medical bandages are mainly used to bandage wounds, fix wounds, and prevent wound infection. Medical gauze is mainly used for dressing wounds and wound infections. Three differences: Medical bandages are used to prevent mechanical and family opening medicine bandages, fixation bandages are used for surgery, wounds with medicine applied under the opening, nasal discharge hospital and limb fractures for surgery, postoperative swollen muscle tissue, postoperative swelling and swelling of dressing. Medical gauze is mainly used for blood-sucking and dressing commonly used ...

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Wounds - how to care for them Jul 26, 2022

A skin wound that doesn't heal, heals slowly or heals but tends to recur is known as a chronic wound. Some of the many causes of chronic (ongoing) skin wounds can include trauma, burns, skin cancers, infection or underlying medical conditions such as diabetes. Wounds that take a long time to heal need special care. Causes of chronic wounds Some of the many causes of a chronic skin wound can include: Being immobile (pressure injuries or bed sores), where persistent localised pressure restricts blood flow Significant trauma injury to the skin Surgery – incisions (cuts made during operations) may become infected and slow to heal Deep burns Underlying medical conditions such as diabetes or some types of vascular disease Specific types of infection such as the Bairnsdale or Buruli ulcers (Mycobacterium ulcerans) Trophic ulcers, where a lack of sensation allows everyday trauma to lead to an ulcer – such as in diabetic neuropathy and leprosy. The healing process The healing proces...

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History of gauze usage and modern wound dressings Aug 31, 2022

Gauze is often used as a generic term to cover a wide range of dressing products. However, gauze products have numerous subcategories that differ according to fabric construction or material composition. The two major groups are referred to as woven or non‐woven. Also 100% cotton.It is important that practitioners differentiate between these subcategories as product characteristics, and performance will differ within each group .It plays a difference role on its products area. Non‐woven gauze dressings are generally made of rayon or synthetic fibre blends. Not to be confused with woven gauze, these dressings were introduced to replace woven products as they have a lower adherence to the wound bed and are less likely to release lint. We called Non-Woven gauze. Woven products, often referred to as absorbent cotton gauze, are generally made of 100% natural cotton yarns and have been manufactured the same way for centuries. It is this type of gauze that has the potential to cause mor...

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