Modern Dressings for the Treatment of Chronic Wounds and the Family Doctor - Case Reports

Dragan Marinkovic

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Modern Dressings for the Treatment of Chronic Wounds and the Family Doctor - Case Reports

Dragan Marinkovic

Published in Journal of Family Medicine and Health Care (Volume 9, Issue 1)

Received: 4 December 2022 Accepted: 28 December 2022 Published: 9 January 2023

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Abstract

The appearance of modern dressings for the treatment of chronic wounds with the concept of moist wound healing has brought a completely new doctrine of their treatment, enabling significantly faster healing and thus a number of other benefits for health systems and health workers, patients with chronic wounds, and for society as a whole, reducing treatment costs drastically. The greatest benefit from their use is achieved by patients with chronic wounds, bearing in mind that a chronic wound significantly reduces and impairs the quality of life of patients. What makes modern dressings for the treatment of chronic wounds special is their simple use, which enables even family doctors to successfully treat chronic wounds with modern dressings, when the location of the wound itself and the involvement of frozen tissue allow it. They can be applied in the doctor's offices as well as in the patients' homes by the patrol services. Their application can be of particular importance to patients in rural areas where the health care system is more difficult to access and where the appointments of health workers, doctors and nurses are not daily. In those cases, patients, as well as their family members, can be educated to apply modern dressings for the treatment of chronic wounds by themselves with occasional control examinations by health workers.

Published in	Journal of Family Medicine and Health Care (Volume 9, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.jfmhc.20230901.11
Page(s)	1-6
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Family Doctor, Wound Treatment, Modern Dressings, Primary Health Care

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Health Center Negotin, Adult Health Protection Service, Negotin, Republic of Serbia

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