Title : Guidelines for burns dressings
Abstract:
Aims & Objectives: To review international & national guidelines for burns dressings.
Introduction: A Dressing is defined as a clean or sterile material applied directly to wounded or diseased tissue to absorb secretions, protect from trauma, administer medications, maintain wound cleanliness, or stop bleeding.1 Guidelines are required to choose dressing on scientific basis, evidence based, avoiding bias in selection, preventing commercial misuse of dressing products, educate & guide burns care givers.2-5 History to current practice of use of regenerative medicine is discussed.
Materials & Methods: Cochrane & literature search-based review of articles on guidelines for burns dressings are done to arrive at conclusion for burns care providers.
Results: A Summary and conclusion was arrived.
Conclusion: To avoid personal bias and use burns dressing scientifically & evidence based, it’s necessary to know various international & national guidelines.