Talk:Dressing (medical)

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    [edit] Sterile field

    I reverted the edit regarding the importance of maintaining a sterile field. This is not always necessary - see current guidance on dressing chronic leg ulcers in the community, for example [1]. Plasters (band aids if you're north american!) are also dressings, and nobody applies them under sterile conditions, do they? --John24601 04:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

    Yeah, I guess you have a point there. But it is important with more serious wounds to use sterile dressings and maintain sterile field. I think it is something worth including in there, but maybe not where I had it before, and I would need some more information about it probably. Sorry about that, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. HusikaSN 22:57, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Modern dressings

    I have added some stuff about modern dressings (dressings these days are rarely cloth), and will add a bunch more stuff about dressings and dressings performance in the near future.

    Pete Phillips 13:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)