Wound care has experienced notable advancements for the emergency and post-operative care field.
Compared to traditional wound care, advanced wound care changes the patient's treatment outcome and provides personalized wound care plans for patients. Especially suitable for patients with difficult-to-heal wounds, complex conditions, or those requiring special care. I will introduce the difference between advanced wound care and traditional wound care, exploring the advantages or benefits of advanced wound care, advanced wound care series products and technologies.
What Is Advanced Wound Care?
What Is Traditional Wound Care?
The Advantages of Advanced Wound Care
1.Precision and Personalization
2.Outstanding Chronic Wound Management
3.Advanced Dressings and Therapies
4. Multidisciplinary Collaboration
The Benefits of Advanced Wound Care
1. Prevent complications
2. Accelerate wound healing
3. Reduce the risk of infection
4. Lower treatment costs
5. Improve patient comfort and quality of life.
Advanced Wound Care Products
1.Dermlin
2. DuoDERM Hydrocolloid Dressing:
3. Mepilex Foam Dressing:
4. Promogran Prisma Transparent Film Dressing:
5. Acticoat Silver Ion Dressing.
The New Technology of Advanced Wound Care
1. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)
2. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
The Difference Between Advanced Wound Care And Traditional Wound Care
1. Different nursing objectives
2. Different nursing methods
3. Different wound care products
4. Applicable to different wounds
5. Different costs
FAQ
1.What is the difference between traditional and modern wound dressing?
2.What wound type are most advanced therapies appropriate for?
3.What are the three types of wound care?
What Is Advanced Wound Care?
Advanced wound care encompasses a wide array of specialized dressings and therapies designed to promote complex or chronic wounds healing. Patients can get personalized care solutions from advanced wound care, improving the efficiency of wound treatment and nursing comfort.
What Is Traditional Wound Care?
Traditional wound care refers to the commonly used, relatively simple wound treatment methods such as using gauze, cotton wool, and cotton dressings. It is suitable for simple and small wounds to stop bleeding, basic cleaning and disinfection. There is a limited role in caring for complex and chronic wounds.
The Advantages of Advanced Wound Care
1.Precision and Personalization
One of the defining features of wound care is its precision and personalized approach. Combining with patients’ health and the size, depth, and severity of the wounds to conduct a precise evaluation, adjust treatment plans and choose functional dressings, so that improving the efficiency of wound treatment and providing more specialized wound care solutions for patients with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and immune system disorders.
2.Outstanding Chronic Wound Management
Advanced wound care excels in managing chronic wounds. The chronic wound treatment is complex and susceptible, and needs assessment and intervention in depth, such as diabetic ulcers, venous ulcers, and pressure sores. Advanced wound care can provide ideal solutions for these complex wounds. For example, Shorten healing time by one week and reduce infection risk for diabetic ulcer with advanced Dermlin dressing.
3.Advanced Dressings and Therapies
Advanced wound care encompasses a wide array of specialized dressings and therapies designed to promote optimal wound healing. Include hydrogel, foam, alginate, and antimicrobial dressings. Compared with traditional wound dressings, advanced wound dressings provide a moist environment to accelerate healing for chronic wounds or acute wounds. In addition, advanced dressings contain antimicrobial agents, controlling wound infections better.
4. Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Another key advantage of advanced wound care lies in its emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration.
Advanced wound care team composed of wound care specialists, nurses, surgeons, psychologists, and nutritionists works closely together to develop a comprehensive care plan. This collaborative approach ensures holistic management, focusing not only on the wound but also on underlying conditions that may delay healing and the patient's psychological well-being.
The Benefits of Advanced Wound Care
There are five benefits for advanced wound care, including preventing complications, accelerating wound healing, reducing the risk of infection, lower treatment costs and improving patient comfort and quality of life.
1. Prevent Complications
Preventing complications caused by infection wounds with advanced wound care interaction. For example, control the risk of infection and promote wound healing with wound debridement, antimicrobial treatment, and the selection of advanced dressings.
2. Accelerate Wound Healing
Unlike traditional wound dressings, advanced wound dressings provide a moist environment for the wound that belong to the core advantages of advanced wound dressings, promoting cell migration and proliferation, accelerating wound healing.
3. Reduce The Risk of Infection
Many advanced dressings have the ability to absorb exudate and possess antibacterial properties. Effectively removing exudate helps reduce bacterial load in the wound and lowers the risk of infection.Effectively removing exudate in wound exudate, helping reduce bacterial load in the wound and lowers the risk of infection.
Advanced wound dressings usually have long-term effective duration, it not only alleviates the patient's pain, reduces the frequency of medical staff's contact with the wound, but also lowers the risk of cross-infection.
4. Lower Treatment Costs
Efficient treatment and care can reduce the frequency of dressing changes and the use of antibiotics with advanced wound care, thereby lowering labor and dressing costs.
5. Improve Patient Comfort and Quality of Life.
Excellent wound dressings or therapy can accelerate wound healing, reduce infection risk so that releasing patients‘ pain. Some advanced wound dressings such as Dermlin, have a role in inhibiting the formation of scars with calcium and silicon, without worrying about impact of scars in life.
Advanced Wound Care Products
I will introduce five advanced wound dressings that are well-received by most hospitals and pharmacies, exploring the characteristics and advantages of each type of wound dressing.
1.Dermlin
Dermlin achieved an outstanding reputation in the market for the role of accelerating wound healing and avoiding infection risk. Using inorganic elements such as calcium, silicon and micron-sized particles, without worrying slow healing, scar formation, or infection. Dermlin wound healing series are indicated for the faster healing of the acute skin wounds caused by scraping, heat, burn, surgical incision, ect., and of the chronic wounds caused by diabetes and long-term bedsore.
2. DuoDERM Hydrocolloid Dressing
The DuoDERM dressing forms a gel upon contact with wound exudate, maintaining a moist wound environment, thereby promoting wound healing. It interacts with necrotic tissue through hydrocolloids, facilitating the dissolution of necrotic tissue and accelerating debridement, making it particularly suitable for surgical wound care.
3. Mepilex Foam Dressing
The uniqueness of Mepilex dressing lies in its use of Safetac technology, which reduces pain during dressing changes and minimizes damage to new tissue, enhancing patient comfort. Additionally, it can absorb a large amount of exudate, preventing bacterial infection. It is suitable for both acute and chronic wounds.
4. Promogran Prisma Transparent Film Dressing
This type dressing has excellent antibacterial capability with silver ions. Widely used in hospitals for postoperative wound management and care of infected wounds.
5. Acticoat Silver Ion Dressing
The primary advantage of Acticoat is its excellent antibacterial effect. Acticoat can rapidly release silver ions, quickly killing bacteria on the wound surface, and continuously release silver ions, providing antibacterial protection for up to 3-7 days. Many healthcare professionals highly commend Acticoat for its antibacterial efficacy and clinical effectiveness.
The New Technology of Advanced Wound Care
1. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)
NPWT is a method that utilizes advanced materials such as new foam dressings and intelligent devices to apply continuous or intermittent negative pressure on the wound surface to promote wound healing and provide more personalization treatment for patients.
NPWT can not only be used to treat wounds but also to prevent their occurrence, such as preventing postoperative wound dehiscence and radiation dermatitis.
2. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
HBOT is a treatment method that allows patients to breathe pure oxygen in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which can inhibit the growth of anaerobic bacteria, reduce the risk of wound infection, and also promote cell tissue growth, aiding in wound healing.