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  2. Skin maceration - Wikipedia

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    Maceration often occurs with the application of a bandage to a wound, regardless of its mildness or severity, particularly if the bandage prevents water from evaporating from the surface of the skin. This occurs because the skin under the bandage becomes wet due to perspiration, urine or other bodily fluids, or contact with other liquids. The ...

  3. Adhesive bandage - Wikipedia

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    An adhesive bandage is a small, flexible sheet of material which is sticky on one side, with a smaller, non-sticky, absorbent pad stuck to the sticky side. The pad is placed against the wound, and overlapping edges of the sticky material are smoothed down so they stick to the surrounding skin.

  4. Liquid bandage - Wikipedia

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    Liquid bandages are suitable for clean cuts that close easily and shallow small wounds, as it will help both sides of the wound to bond and produce a suture-like effect. Due to the drying of liquid wound dressing, it will form a nonelastic film on the wound and cannot absorb tissue fluid. If the wound area is too large, it will actually hinder ...

  5. Surgical tape - Wikipedia

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    Surgical tape or medical tape is a type of pressure-sensitive adhesive tape [1] used in medicine and first aid to hold a bandage or other dressing onto a wound. These tapes usually have a hypoallergenic adhesive which is designed to hold firmly onto skin, dressing materials, and underlying layers of tape, but to remove easily without damaging ...

  6. Dressing (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Gauze dressing are capable of absorbing discharge from wound but requires frequent changing. Excessive wound discharge would cause the gauze to adhere to the wound, thus causes pain when trying to remove the gauze from the wound. Bandages are made up of cotton wool, cellulose, or polyamide materials.

  7. Emergency Bandage - Wikipedia

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    A sterile non-adherent dressing to allow removing the bandage without reopening a wound. [2] A pressure applicator placed over the wound to stop bleeding by applying pressure. [2] It allows changing the direction of the bandage and wrapping it around the wound once in various directions. It also makes bandaging easier.

  8. Occlusive dressing - Wikipedia

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    December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) An occlusive dressing is an air- and water-tight trauma medical dressing used in first aid . These dressings are generally made with a waxy coating so as to provide a total seal, and as a result do not have the absorbent properties of gauze pads.

  9. Debridement - Wikipedia

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    Allowing a dressing to proceed from moist to dry, then manually removing the dressing causes a form of non-selective debridement. This method works best on wounds with moderate amounts of necrotic debris (e.g. "dead tissue"). [citation needed] Maggot debridement being used on a diabetic foot ulcer.

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