Treating Wounds with Absorbent Alginate Dressings
Alginate dressings can absorb up to 20 times their own weight for optimal wound healing. Various types of wounds can affect bedridden patients, those with diabetes, or those with chronic venous...
View ArticleBreaking Ground: 3 New Dressing Types for Chronic Wound Care
Wound dressings continue improve thanks to ongoing research. Medical science is not a stagnant field. As scientists and other researchers continually unveil new findings, or simply re-evaluate...
View ArticleThe 6 Main Categories of Effective Wound Care
Wound dressings come in many different kinds of categories. There are a number of different experiences or events that lead to an equally plentiful amount of wound types. More than just how the injury...
View ArticleHow to Properly Remove Advanced Wound Care Products
Proper dressing removal is a part of an effective treatment regimen. A proper wound care regimen involves two equally important steps. The first is actually dressing the wound, in which dressings are...
View ArticleRecent Wound Care Breakthroughs
A new study, among several new wound care developments, found hyperbaric therapy doesn’t help with chronic ulcers. Like the patients it treats, the collective wound care industry is a living organism,...
View ArticleRecent Innovations in Wound Care Technology
New innovations in dressing technology could have a huge impact on the greater wound care industry. As the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out, the current wound care industry,...
View ArticleEffective Ways to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
Frequent movement is just one way to prevent pressure ulcers. They are often seen as little more than an annoyance, but for many non-medical personnel, bedsores – or as they’re known technically,...
View ArticleEssential Podiatry Supplies
Your podiatry supplies should include multiple dressings prescribed by your doctor. Foot and lower leg wounds require specialized wound care, particularly in patients who are at high risk for...
View ArticleUnique Products Used to Treat Leg Ulcers
Doctor-prescribed advanced wound care dressings are vital to the healing of chronic leg ulcers. For patients coping with vein disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and other diseases that compromise the...
View ArticleTips for Preventing and Treating Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Caring for your feet is important to preventing foot ulcers. A 2007 study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation found that 15 percent of all diabetic patients eventually develop foot ulcers. With...
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