Zetuvit® Plus- An observational study of a superabsorbent polymer dressing evaluated by clinicians and patients (Summary)
- Type
- Clinical Case Publication
- Language
- EN
- Publication Year
- 2018
- published in
- Journal of Wound Care
• Wound exudate is an important component of the wound healing process.
• Effective wound exudate control is needed to prevent exudate leakage, maceration, malodour, staining of clothes and periwound skin damage.
• Removal of excessive amount of wound exudate also supports wound healing by preventing tissue damage caused by elevated levels of components involved in tissue degradation (e.g. MMPs) found in chronic wound exudate.
• Higher levels of exudate require more frequent dressing-changes and therefore increase treatment cost.
• Superabsorbent polymer (SAP) dressings have been developed to cope with extra-fluid which cannot be handled by standard dressings (e.g. foam-dressings).