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- Title
A clinical observational case series evaluation of a superabsorbent dressing on exudating wounds.
- Authors
Collier, Mark
- Abstract
The annual cost to the NHS of managing 3.8 million patients with a wound was estimated in 2020 to be £8.3 billion, of which £5.6 billion was spent on the 30% of wounds that did not heal and £2.7 billion on the 70% of wounds that healed (Guest, 2020). One of the main symptoms associated with chronic 'hard-to-heal' wounds is the production of excess exudate (Atkin et al, 2019). This is due to a prolonged chronic inflammatory response stimulated by a physiological cause. This article describes what exudate is and its importance in the wound healing process, highlighting the consequences of too little or excessive wound exudate associated with any wound. The article goes on to describe a case series observational study involving a range of patients (n=47; 33 male/14 female), aged between 33 and 91 years (mean 67.4 years), with a variety of acute (n=11) and chronic exuding wounds (n=44). In total, 55 wounds of various aetiologies were managed with DryMax Super (a dressing whose design includes superabsorbent polymers) in order to evaluate and report on the absorption and fluid-handling properties of the product.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WOUND healing; POSTOPERATIVE care; POLYMERS; LEG ulcers; COMPRESSION bandages; RESEARCH funding; BANDAGES &; bandaging; SCIENTIFIC observation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; TRAUMATOLOGY diagnosis; SURGICAL dressings; WOUND care; EXUDATES &; transudates; CASE studies; PATIENT satisfaction; HUMAN comfort; PRESSURE ulcers; SURGICAL site
- Publication
British Journal of Nursing, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 12, pS29
- ISSN
0966-0461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/bjon.2024.0180