Table 3.
Prescribed dressings documented in the patients’ records (n=294 burns)
| Month of treatment | Percentage of burns that were treated with the following dressings | |||||||||||
| Absorbent | Alginate | Antimicrobial | Capillary action | Foam | Hydrocolloid | Hydrogel | Low adherence | Odour absorbent | Other | Permeable | Soft polymer | |
| 1 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 45 | 9 | 13 |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 5 |
| 11 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 6 |
| 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 |
| 14 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| 15 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
| 16 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 17 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| 18 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 7 |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 20 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| 21 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 22 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 4 |
| 23 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 12 |
| 24 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 8 |