Dressings Flashcards
Low adherence dressings?
1) knitted viscose primary
2) profore
3) N-A or N-A ultra
4) jelonet
For clean, lightly exuding wounds without necrosis.
Absorbent dressings?
1) mepore
2) melolin
3) primapore
Cellouse and polymer dressings:
Mesorb; zetuvit E, curea
It’s for drying wounds
Hydrogel dressings?
1) Actiformcool
2) hydrosorb
3) intrasite conformable
4) Aquaform
5) granugel
6) Nu - gel
Used to donate liquid to dry sloughy wounds.
Avoid in infected and heavily exuding.
Vapour permeable adhesive film dressing?
1) mepitel
2) mepore film
3) mepore ultra
4) opsite plus
For lightly exuding wounds.
Soft polymer dressing?
1) adaptic touch
2) mepitel
3) advazrob border
4) allevyn Gentle
5) mepilex
6) sorbion sana
For moderate to heavily exuding wounds
Hydrocollood?
1) comfeel plus
2) duoderm extra thin
3) granuflex
4) aquacel
5) versiva Xc
Rehydrate light to moderate exuding wounds and promote autolytic debridement of dry and sloghy wounds.
Foam dressing?
1) lyofoam
2) advazorb lite
3) allevyn lite
4) tegaderm foam
Suitable for all exuding wounds. To provide protection of fragile skin
Alginate?
1) kaltostat
2) kendall
3) sorbsan
4) suprasorb A
Suitable for on exuding wounds.
Avoid in heavy bleeding.
Dressings contain honey?
1) actilite
2) algivon
3) medihoney
For acute or chronic infected wounds. Should avoid in sensitivity to honey.
Dressing contain iodine?
1) cadexomer-iodine iodosorb ( contra in patients taking Li, thyroid problems.
2) inadine
3) povidone - for supreficial burn and contra in severe renal impairment.
For chronic exuding wounds.
Dressing contain silver?
1) acticoat
2) allevyn Ag
3) Aquacel Ag
4) meplix Ag
For exuding wounds as supplement to systemic therapies. Not for acute wounds
Avoid in pts taking sulphonamides, G6pd, renal or hepatic.
