(Nanowerk News) Chemists at the University have developed a prototype medical dressing that detects the first signs of the lethal Toxic Shock Syndrome along with other burn wound infections and could ...

Wound care uses specific dressings and hygiene to prevent wound infections. The wound care team assesses the healing progress of wounds daily. Wound care: When you are admitted to the burn unit, your ...

One of the challenges in treating burn victims is the frequency of dressing changes, which can be extremely painful. Image Credit: University of Waterloo To bring relief to this and other problems, ...

It's a sad fact that burn victims often feel a great deal of pain when the dressings on their wounds are removed. A new hydrogel-based dressing could change that, however, as it easily releases from ...

ConvaTec has launched Aquacel Ag Burn Dressing, a soft, absorbent, non-woven wound dressing for the management of partial thickness burns (PTBs) and donor sites. Aquacel Ag Burn Dressing utilizes ...

Researchers have created a new type of wound dressing material using advanced polymers. This new dressing could enhance the healing process for burn patients and have potential applications for drug ...

When doctors need to change the dressing on a severe second degree burn, they often have to pull off the bandage and scrape the wound to remove any dead tissue. Because the nerves are still active in ...

In today’s environment of advanced medical treatments where high success rates are achieved in amazingly delicate operations that until recently weren’t thought possible, a staggering 70 percent of ...

The SurviveX Hydrogel Burn Dressings are sterile, 4" x 4" hydrogel pads infused with tea tree oil, designed for immediate first aid treatment of minor burns, scalds, sunburns, and thermal injuries.

Prior studies have investigated alternative approaches to pain reduction in burn injury patients that focus on distraction, such as music, hypnosis, toys, and virtual reality (VR). A research team has ...