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Gauze, a versatile and widely used medical fabric, plays a crucial role in various healthcare settings, from hospitals and clinics to home care. Its unique properties make it an indispensable material in wound care, surgical procedures, and other medical applications.
Promoting healing and acting as an infection-prevention barrier, gauze is the primary dressing material used in wound care. Its porous texture allows for better absorption of exudate, keeping the wound moist and stimulating tissue regeneration.
In spite of everything, hospital beds play similarly an important role in healthcare, assisting patients to obtain optimal comfort. On the contrary, this is a challenge in Ghana and other developing countries, as some of the hospital beds are in a wretched state.
Conventional gauze dressings adhere to the wound bed, cause bleeding and tissue damage on dressing removal and expose the patient to unnecessary pain (73–78). From their initial introduction, hydrocolloids were, and still are, designed to be left in place for several days.
Therefore, the basic dressing should be occlusive, incorporating a non-stick layer, such as a leno-weave (also called gauze weave or cross weave) fabric, of cotton or cotton and viscose, which has been impregnated with white soft paraffin (e.g. Jelonet) placed directly over the wound or incision.
24 Ιουν 2024 · Gauze dressings are particularly suitable for: Covering and protecting superficial wounds such as abrasions, cuts, and lacerations. Absorbing wound drainage from surgical incisions, lacerations, or abrasions. Applying topical medications or antiseptics to wounds using impregnated gauze dressings.
1 Ιαν 2019 · Patients are continually denied health care due to the shortages of hospital beds. Others are unnecessarily referred resulting in delays of care and the development of complications. In...
