Article: So, what do I put on this wound? The wound dressing puzzle: Part III.(Wound Assessment and Evaluation)

"... 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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