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Feb 28, 2022Keywords:
Strategies; wound care; wound management; wound-bed-preparation; dressings; framework.
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A ‘game of dressings’: Strategies for wound management in primary health care
Maria G.C. Giaquinto- Cilliers
Arun Nair
Klaus B. von Pressentin
Francois Coetzee
Hamid Saeed
Abstract
Wound care management and the dressing of wounds represent some of the most basic services offered in primary health care facilities across Southern Africa. Clinicians should have a basic understanding of the processes of wound healing and wound bed preparation to match the ideal cost-effective dressing to the particular type of wound to be managed. In the ‘kingdom of wounds’, the authors use a popular analogy and propose the best five strategies for the clinician in choosing the right management option in the ‘game of dressings’.
