Hydrogel Dressings for the Treatment of Burn Wounds: An Up-To-Date Overview
Globally, the fourth most prevalent devastating form of trauma are burn injuries. Ideal burn wound dressings are fundamental to facilitate the wound healing process and decrease pain in lower time intervals. Conventional dry dressing treatments, such as those using absorbent gauze and/or absorbent c...
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| description | Globally, the fourth most prevalent devastating form of trauma are burn injuries. Ideal burn wound dressings are fundamental to facilitate the wound healing process and decrease pain in lower time intervals. Conventional dry dressing treatments, such as those using absorbent gauze and/or absorbent cotton, possess limited therapeutic effects and require repeated dressing changes, which further aggravate patients’ suffering. Contrariwise, hydrogels represent a promising alternative to improve healing by assuring a moisture balance at the burn site. Most studies consider hydrogels as ideal candidate materials for the synthesis of wound dressings because they exhibit a three-dimensional (3D) structure, which mimics the natural extracellular matrix (ECM) of skin in regard to the high-water amount, which assures a moist environment to the wound. There is a wide variety of polymers that have been used, either alone or blended, for the fabrication of hydrogels designed for biomedical applications focusing on treating burn injuries. The aim of this paper is to provide an up-to-date overview of hydrogels applied in burn wound dressings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a3598ad0196439082de5804d579b5952023-11-20T04:57:44ZengMDPI AGMaterials1996-19442020-06-011312285310.3390/ma13122853Hydrogel Dressings for the Treatment of Burn Wounds: An Up-To-Date OverviewAlexandra Elena Stoica0Cristina Chircov1Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu2Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gheorghe Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, RomaniaDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gheorghe Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, RomaniaDepartment of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Gheorghe Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, RomaniaGlobally, the fourth most prevalent devastating form of trauma are burn injuries. Ideal burn wound dressings are fundamental to facilitate the wound healing process and decrease pain in lower time intervals. Conventional dry dressing treatments, such as those using absorbent gauze and/or absorbent cotton, possess limited therapeutic effects and require repeated dressing changes, which further aggravate patients’ suffering. Contrariwise, hydrogels represent a promising alternative to improve healing by assuring a moisture balance at the burn site. Most studies consider hydrogels as ideal candidate materials for the synthesis of wound dressings because they exhibit a three-dimensional (3D) structure, which mimics the natural extracellular matrix (ECM) of skin in regard to the high-water amount, which assures a moist environment to the wound. There is a wide variety of polymers that have been used, either alone or blended, for the fabrication of hydrogels designed for biomedical applications focusing on treating burn injuries. The aim of this paper is to provide an up-to-date overview of hydrogels applied in burn wound dressings.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/13/12/2853hydrogelsburn injuryskin regenerationwound healingwound dressing |
| spellingShingle | Alexandra Elena Stoica Cristina Chircov Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu Hydrogel Dressings for the Treatment of Burn Wounds: An Up-To-Date Overview Materials hydrogels burn injury skin regeneration wound healing wound dressing |
| title | Hydrogel Dressings for the Treatment of Burn Wounds: An Up-To-Date Overview |
| title_full | Hydrogel Dressings for the Treatment of Burn Wounds: An Up-To-Date Overview |
| title_fullStr | Hydrogel Dressings for the Treatment of Burn Wounds: An Up-To-Date Overview |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hydrogel Dressings for the Treatment of Burn Wounds: An Up-To-Date Overview |
| title_short | Hydrogel Dressings for the Treatment of Burn Wounds: An Up-To-Date Overview |
| title_sort | hydrogel dressings for the treatment of burn wounds an up to date overview |
| topic | hydrogels burn injury skin regeneration wound healing wound dressing |
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