Abstract

Wound management has recently become more complexbecause of new insights into wound healing and the increasing need to managecomplex wounds. Modern dressings are designed to facilitate the function of thewound rather than just to cover it. Principles of wound dressings are changing,especially in relation to debridement of wounds and control of the woundenvironment. Occlusive dressings, which allow debridement in a fluidenvironment, are equal to traditional wet or dry dressings. Present paper describes our attempt to make such alow cost dressing capable to maintain a moist and relatively pathogen freeenvironment of the wound.

Introduction

Healing chronic wounds is a multifactorial process. Treatment ofthe underlying disease and extrinsic factors such as patient adherence toregimens and concomitant medication must be addressed, along with severalwound-based parameters, such as infection, bone involvement, or ischemia thatwill interfere with healing. Thus, comprehensive wound care protocols areindicated in the management of non-healing wounds. one major goal ofthese protocols is to improve the wound environment in order to create a moistwound that facilitates granulating tissue formation and reduces pain and odor.Modern wound dressings that have optimal exudate management properties have thepotential to achieve this goal.

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Ms. Priyanka Sharma and Ms. Kirti Tewari are fromMaharani Laxmi Bai Girls PG College, Indore and Dr. M.S.Parmar isassociated with NITRA