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Article: Moist wound healing.
- Article from:
- Dermatology Nursing
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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The optimum wound environment to enhance wound healing is a balance of nutrition, hypoxia, and removal of debris in an occlusive moist environment. With increasing knowledge of the healing process and the variety of dressings available, the end result of any wound management will be an expedited wound healing with maximum patient comfort.
In the past the management of wounds was by desiccation. However, since Winter's study in 1962 demonstrated that moist wounds enhance re-epithelialization, the treatment of wounds has been revolutionized (Winter, 1962). Subsequent studies have further shown that a moist wound prevents tissue dehydration and cell death, ...