New smart dressing could heal and monitor wounds
Australian researchers have unlocked the possibility of creating smart wound dressings that enable real-time monitoring while also delivering healing agents. Chronic wounds cause significant burdens on healthcare systems due to the complexities of continuous and changing care required. Smart wound dressings that monitor infection or deliver healing therapeutics have emerged as a solution, but combining both monitoring and healing […]
‘It creeps up on you’: How to solve Australia’s hidden chronic wound epidemic
Wounds Australia has released a ‘5 Point Plan’ to solve the country’s chronic wound epidemic.
Scientists develop game-changer in treating chronic wounds
A team of international scientists has developed a more effective treatment for chronic wounds that doesn’t involve antibiotics or silver-based dressings, but instead, an ionized gas called plasma. The treatment involves boosting the plasma activation of hydrogel dressings with a unique mix of different chemical oxidants that decontaminate and help health chronic wounds. According to […]
Q&A: Wound Clinical Nurse Consultant Hayley Ryan on tackling a ‘hidden epidemic’
This year’s Wound Awareness Week (4-10 September) is ‘Let’s get wound care RIGHT! The RIGHT diagnosis and the RIGHT treatment at the RIGHT time’. It points to the fact that so many wounds can be healed with appropriate care, especially from experienced wound care nurses, and the value of wound-specific education from many other health […]