wet to dry dressings.....

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Caro Laithwaite VN — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:47:04 GMT

Was also going to say about leaving suture loops inplace,

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:34:01 GMT

thanks! :)[quote user="Nick Shackleton"]

[quote user="StephB"]

what's the difference between a poultice and a wet to dry?

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Concise define a poultice as : A preparation of hot moist material spread between layers of gauze and applied to an area of the body surface to soothe pain or draw pus. A poultice can be prepared from a mix of kaolin and glycrine or fom cooked cereals.

Wet-to=-dry: Wet-to-dry dressings are not required to be warm. Usually swabs soaked in saline. placed over the wound and they debride the wound as they dry out.

hope this is clear

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Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Nick Shackleton — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:04:18 GMT

[quote user="StephB"]

what's the difference between a poultice and a wet to dry?

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Wet-to=-dry: Wet-to-dry dressings are not required to be warm. Usually swabs soaked in saline. placed over the wound and they debride the wound as they dry out.

hope this is clear

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Nick Shackleton — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:51:34 GMT

Louise do you mean a tie over dressing?? we have used these.

1) place a circle of suture loops around the wound

2) Place your dressing over the wound

3) using umbilical tape tie the dressing in place

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:02:36 GMT

what's the difference between a poultice and a wet to dry?

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Sal the 1st — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:28:17 GMT

we used to have 'loops' of suture in the healthy skin well away from the wound and used to change dressings daily by sort of lacing the loops to hold the dressing in place and unlacing and relacing every time a new dressing was applied. Dressings stayed in place really well and animals seemed to tollerate this method really well. Only very rarely did we need to sedate to redress even with the worst of wounds.

does anbody remember mesalt dressings? are they still made? - you can do similar with gauze swab and saline but somehow never had quite the same results

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:07:50 GMT

I have seen allevyn sutured in the corners for difficult to cover places..... ie the rump, you can change it by un doing the suture and basically feeding the suture through the dressing again........ does that sound stupid??? I dont think it does to me, but then I am visualising what i am on about.

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Saskia Quinn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:26:03 GMT

the most recent patient we were doing it on was quite nervous and difficult to handle so a light sedation was needed each day.

However, depending on the patient, you could use local

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

louiseRVN — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:23:34 GMT

was wondering how they manage to change it on a daily basis if stitching in but that seems to make a bit more sense xxx

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Saskia Quinn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:18:18 GMT

In some cases, after the wet to dry, depending on where the wound is, we suture allevyn adhesive to it then cover it with bandage.

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

louiseRVN — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:16:49 GMT

I must say i was amazed at the amout of crap that came out in just 24hours. Does anybody suture the dressings in. Saw it in a book not sure which one looked fancy sort of like a graft over the wound?

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Saskia Quinn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:11:56 GMT

when we get a horrible infected wound, we use them for the first few days and the improvement is remarkable!

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

louiseRVN — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:08:17 GMT

I just used wet to dry on a dog yesterday on a huge wound breakdown. Saw it back today and looked loads better.

Must admit we dont really use it that often but it can be usefull xxx

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Nick Shackleton — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:03:32 GMT

[quote user="daisy"]

we use them a lot on really infected wounds but i'd never used them in my old practice, there we would have used flamazine which worked fantastic in these cases!!!!

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that's cos they are set in their ways Daisy, It's either their way or the highway, I chose life and got the hell outta there!

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

daisy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:52:10 GMT

we use them a lot on really infected wounds but i'd never used them in my old practice, there we would have used flamazine which worked fantastic in these cases!!!!

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

helennorth — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:17:25 GMT

Not seen anything work better. All we use for dirty, non healing wounds, prep of wound for skin grafts etc. Saved many a life !!

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Saskia Quinn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:53:56 GMT

[quote user="Charlotte says smile"]

i remember being told at college that wet to dry dressings never got used, yet we use them at my practice.

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We have a lot of success using them in practice and I was taught same at college!

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Charlotte says smile — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:45:55 GMT

i remember being told at college that wet to dry dressings never got used, yet we use them at my practice.

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Saskia Quinn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:35:08 GMT

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]

Should also add that her college people need to contact Louise O Dyer and get her book of wounds, when someone that has her knowledge uses them l would advise "teachers" to take note.

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I have that book, its very good

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Claire Cameron — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:33:27 GMT

I use wet to dry dressings x

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Caro Laithwaite VN — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:30:03 GMT

Should also add that her college people need to contact Louise O Dyer and get her book of wounds, when someone that has her knowledge uses them l would advise "teachers" to take note.

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Caro Laithwaite VN — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:27:09 GMT

Use them an awful lot at PM very useful as Nick says.

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Lisa Molyneaux — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:00:26 GMT

WOOHOOO im not from the stone age then!!

I just popped one onto a dog today, horrible infected wound, thanks Nick!

Re: wet to dry dressings.....

Nick Shackleton — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:58:34 GMT

I've seen them used recently. really good for debridement of chronically infected wounds.