ReviewThe journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists2012
Wet-to-Dry Dressings Do Not Provide Moist Wound Healing.
Review in The journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Comparison of healing effectiveness of different debridement approaches for diabetic foot ulcers: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- The Role of Natural Hydrogels in Enhancing Wound Healing: From Biomaterials to Bioactive Therapies.Pharmaceutics · 2025Review
- Detection, management, and prevention of diabetes-related foot disease in the Australian context.World journal of diabetes · 2023Review
- High porosity PEG-based hydrogel foams with self-tuning moisture balance as chronic wound dressings.Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A · 2023Article
- Studies on the Impact of the Photoinitiator Amount Used during the PVP-Based Hydrogels' Synthesis on Their Physicochemical Properties.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Peptide hydrogel with self-healing and redox-responsive properties.Nano convergence · 2022Article
- On the Cutting Edge: Wound Care for the Endovascular Specialist.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine if using advanced wound care dressings leads to improved outcomes as compared to wet-to-dry dressings. Based on a review of literature published in the last eight years, with the exception of one landmark article published in 2001, strong support was found that advanced wound care dressings improved outcomes when compared to wet-to-dry dressings. Some of the outcomes compared were healing time, pain, infection rates, and costs; several articles took it a step further stating that the use of wet-to-dry dressings is considered sub-standard practice. The articles provided evidence-based support for the use of moist wound healing.
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