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Article: So, what do I put on this wound? The wound dressing puzzle: Part III.(Wound Assessment and Evaluation)
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- Dermatology Nursing
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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"... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The quest for the "ultimate" wound dressing has led many wound care clinicians to assume that there is one dressing that can be used on everything! I've known practitioners who think that one dressing can be used on all wounds and proceed to do so. Years ago, I remember receiving a consult from a nurse who stated that the wound was draining so heavily that she had changed the dressing three times in 1 hour. I arrived on the floor quickly, only to discover that she was using a transparent film on a heavily draining wound. Fluid was pooling under ...
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... ... an examination is needed to say which. After that, your doctor may want to refer you to a specialist. WOULD silicone dressings you wrote about, which ease scars, be useful for facial scars due to electrolysis? And can the silicone enter ...
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