{"id":642,"date":"2013-01-30T03:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T03:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/?p=642"},"modified":"2013-01-30T03:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T03:03:25","slug":"were-out-of-silicone-dressings-just-use-a-hydrocolloid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/642\/were-out-of-silicone-dressings-just-use-a-hydrocolloid\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re out of Silicone dressings&#8230;just use a Hydrocolloid&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times has this happened to you when you&#8217;re charged with the most important job of the day &#8212; wound care??<\/p>\n<p>But Silicone dressings\u00a0are not the same as\u00a0Hydrocolloid dressings!<\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230; I love hydrocolloids! In fact they were the first &#8216;second generation&#8217; dressing I was introduced to in 1989 &#8230; and that&#8217;s when I began my love affair with wound care.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Nothing was ever the same<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0&#8230; we moved from gauze dressings, changed every four hours, to hydrocolloid dressings that could remain in place for up to a week. Magic!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now I still love hydrocolloids (e.g. DuoDerm and Comfeel) but not for frail [ageing] skin. They stick too well to skin, so much so that when they are removed from frail skin they can take a layer of skin with them causing a lot of pain&#8230;and making the wound much larger than it was.<\/p>\n<p>So please do not use hydrocolloids on frail skin, e.g. on skin tears in the aged. Use <em>ONLY<\/em> silicone dressings (e.g. Biatain Silicone Foam, Mepilex Border or Allevyn Gentle Border).<\/p>\n<p>Download the free book SHARP CLINICAL SOLUTIONS\u00a9 for the prevention and treatment of skin tears from this website www.thewoundcentre.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times has this happened to you when you&#8217;re charged with the most important job of the day &#8212; wound care?? But Silicone dressings\u00a0are not the same as\u00a0Hydrocolloid dressings! Now don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230; I love hydrocolloids! In fact they were the first &#8216;second generation&#8217; dressing I was introduced to in 1989 &#8230; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wound-management-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}