A new type of wound dressing might change burn care for the better with one amazing property: dissolvability.
December 05, 2022
Mechanical debridement can be especially difficult for second-degree burn patients, whose wounds may still retain nerve endings. Debridement tends to also remove some healthy tissue and can damage newly formed tissue, slowing down healing.The new hydrogel treatment can be applied directly to a wound and it forms a protective barrier around the site in 15 seconds. The hydrogel is then covered by a protective dressing until it needs to be changed.
more easily, meaning they can be dissolved quickly. Another standout feature of the new hydrogels is their hybrid composition, displaying characteristics of both liquids and solids. The polymers are knitted together into a mesh-like network that enables water retention, with the goal of maintaining the moist environment needed forThe supramolecular assembly is also greener, Usta explained; traditional crosslinking approaches produce a lot of toxic by-products that could harm the environment.
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