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An Overview on Wound Dressing Materials
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: Received: 9 July 2024 / Approved: 10 July 2024 / Online: 11 July 2024 (09:54:40 CEST)
How to cite: Lagoa, T.; Queiroga, M. C.; Martins, L. An Overview on Wound Dressing Materials. Preprints 2024, 2024070881. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.0881.v1 Lagoa, T.; Queiroga, M. C.; Martins, L. An Overview on Wound Dressing Materials. Preprints 2024, 2024070881. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.0881.v1
Abstract
Wounds are an increasing global concern, mainly due to a sedentary lifestyle, frequently associated to the occidental way of life. The current prevalence of obesity in western societies, leading to an increase in type II diabetes, and an elderly population, are also a key factor associated to the problem of wounds healing. Therefore, it stands essential to find wound dressing systems allowing reestablishing the skin integrity in the shortest possible time and with the lowest cost, avoiding further damage and promoting patients´ well-being. Wounds can be classified into acute or chronic, depending essentially on the duration of the healing process, which is associated with. It depends on the extent and depth of wound, localization, level of infection and on the patient health status. For each kind of wound and respective healing stage there is a more suitable dressing. The aim of this review was to focus on the possible wound dressing management, aiming the more adequate healing approach for each kind of wound.
Keywords
skin; wounds; healing; wound dressings; biomaterials
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Dermatology
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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