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Thursday 6 February 2014

Begging’s of Modern Wound Care


The 19th century was a pivotal time for advances in wound care products with Innovations that laid the foundation for the modern chronic wound care industry. World War I and World War II were settings for agile advances in chronic wound care treatments.

Antibiotics and debridement were utilized to bolster healing and prevent infections, while the splinting of wounds brought dramatic increases in the prevalence of pressure ulcers. Traditional gauzes and antiseptic treatments were used and advances in wound care remained minimal until the 1960’s.

The father of the antiseptic wound dressing, the British surgeon Joseph Lister, incorporated the findings of French microbiologist, Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of fermentation to wound care. Pasteur’s theory that organisms were capable of fermentation shed light on the idea that microorganisms could be transmitted through air, a theory Lister applied directly to wound care.

In 1960 Lister coated wound dressings in carbolic acid, creating antiseptic wound dressings which led to dramatic drops in mortality and laid the foundation for modern aseptic wound care techniques, including alginate dressings.

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