Wound dressing gauze

Absorbent cotton gauze Absorbent wound dressing Any method... 

To avoid all these drawbacks new wound dressing materials have been tested. So, PEO/PVA hydrogel, crosslinked by electron beams, has been synthesized and tested as dressing on animals wounds. Wounds dressed with a hydrogel healed almost completely within 14 days, while those using gauze were only half-healed within that time. Clinical tests confirmed the safety and effects of this product [234],... 

Therapeutically, sterile gauze dressings containing petrolatum may be used for nonadherent wound dressings or as a packing material. Petrolatum is additionally widely used in cosmetics and in some food applications. See Table I. 

Other textile materials used for wound dressing applications include gauze, lint, and wadding. Gauze is an open weave, absorbent fabric that, when coated with paraffin wax, is used for the treatment of bums and scalds. In surgical applications gauze serves as an absorbent material when used in pad form (swabs) yams containing... 

Cellulose is a major naturally occurring storage and structural polymer in plants. Cellulose and its derivatives have been widely investigated for various biomedical applications. Although pure cellulose is not readily resorbable in the body, it can be chemically modified to cause chain scission of the structure and hence be made bioresorbable. Oxidized cellulose is one such example. Surgicel is a commercial oxidized cellulose, which is available in the form of gauze pads for use as resorbable hemostatic wound dressings. 

In the 19th century, a large variety of textile fibres (such as cotton, silk and wool) and structures (knitted, nonwoven and composites) were employed as traditional wound dressing materials. The cotton gauze impregnated with paraffin as a wound... 

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