Core Purposes of A Dressing
A dressing can have a number of purposes, depending on the type, severity and position of the wound, although all purposes are focused towards promoting recovery and preventing further harm from the wound. Key purposes of a dressing are:
- Stem bleeding – Helps to seal the wound to expedite the clotting process
- Absorb exudate – Soak up blood, plasma and other fluids exuded from the wound, containing it in one place
- Ease pain – Some dressings may have a pain relieving effect, and others may have a placebo effect
- Debride the wound – The removal of slough and foreign objects from the wound
- Protection from infection and mechanical damage, and
- Promote healing – through granulation and epithelialization
Read more about this topic: Dressing (medical)
Famous quotes containing the words core, purposes and/or dressing:
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today—but the core of science fiction, its essence ... has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
“The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)