Table 1.
Currently available wound dressings
| Type of dressing | Commercially available products | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gauze | Curity, Vaseline Gauze, Xeroform | Inexpensive, drying, may cause further injury on changing |
| Films | Bioclusive, Blisterfilm, Cutifilm, Flexigrid, OpSite, Tegaderm | Occlusive, retains moisture, only for non-exudative wounds |
| Hydrocolloids | Aquacel, Comfeel, DuoDERM, Granuflex, Tegasorb | Long times between changes, fluid-trapping, occlusive, not for infected wounds |
| Hydrogels | Carrasyn, Curagel, Nu-Gel, Purilon, Restore, SAF-gel, XCell | Rehydrates dry wounds, easy removal/changes, may cause over-hydration |
| Foams | 3M Adhesive Foam, Allevyn, Lyofoam, Tielle | Moderately absorbent, insulating |
| Alginates | Algisite, Kaltostat, Sorbsan, Tegagen | Highly absorbent, hemostatic |
| Hydrofibers | Aquacel Hydrofiber | Highly absorbent |
| Tissue engineered skin substitutes | Alloderm, Apligraf, Biobrane, Bioseed, Dermagraft, Epicel, EZ Derm, Hyalograft, Integra Omnigraft, Laserskin, Myskin, TransCyte | Addresses deficient growth factors and cytokines, expensive, risk of infection, antigenicity |