Thursday 19 February 2015

Top 5 advance wound care products

Proper treatment of difficult wounds needs assessment of entire patient not just the wound. A positive wound culture does not confirm a wound infection. Microorganisms may colonize any wound. Wound care management can be a complex treatment with acute wounds, surgical wounds each wound having their own characteristics. But every wound has to be treated on an individual basis.With our wide wound care solutions we focus on patient and economic cost of wounds. We do hard work to help you manage wound care plans more effectively and also with lower overall costs to generate better outcomes.

Hydrocolloid dressing is an important dressing for wounds. This dressing is biodegradable so there is no need of taping. The surface of this dressing is coated with cross linked adhesive mass consist of dispersion of gelatin and pectin together with a flexible wafer. When it comes to be contact with wound the polymers absorbs water and swell forming gel.The moist conditions produced promote wound healing without breaking down of tissue. Hydrocolloid patches are also used on face for acne. It is a light dressing to prevent exposure to injury or infection.






Foams are highly comfortable and absorbent dressings.You can left these for 3 to 4 days. Foam dressing helps to maintain moist environment. Foam dressings were introduced 20 years ago. They are made from polyurethane and coated with silicon foam to provide soft dressing to wounds. Foam dressing also provides thermal insulation to get protection from moist. Most of people use this dressing as a secondary one. Depending upon nature and condition of wound you can change this dressing twice a day or once in a week. According to their formulation foam sheets absorb blood. Gauge bandage is made from simple woven strip of material with telfa  absorbent to prevent adhering to wounds.A Bandage is a material used to support medical device and also to support body. When there is heavy bleeding then it is important to stop flow of blood tight bandage accomplish this task very well.  Bandages are available in market for specific limb or part of body. Gauze bandage is commonly used bandage for dressing and come in different lengths and widths. There are wide variety of bandages available in market according to your need such as short stretch compression bandage, long stretch compression bandages, triangular bandages, tube bandage.


Medstock provide you quality wound care products which are owned by Australian practicing and medical professionals. Medstock just focus on skin integrity.Medstock has created a wide range of wound care dressings that provide you outcomes in wound healing. For medical practitioners and general public we have convenient and cost effective wound care products. So in the end we can say that private and personal medical conditions are our focus.