Dry Wound Dressing Change

Wet to dry dressing changes your health care provider has covered your wound with a wet to dry dressing.

Dry wound dressing change.

Changing your dressing follow these steps to put a new dressing on. Keep the dressing clean and dry. With this type of dressing a wet or moist gauze dressing is put on your wound and allowed to dry. Put on a new pair of non sterile gloves.

Pour saline into a clean bowl. Ideally wound dressings should be changed before any fluids soak through the gauze since this might cause difficulty in peeling the gauze from the wounded area. Wound drainage and dead tissue can be removed when you take off the old dressing. Remove tape of rolled gauze and the gauze square from on top of the wound.

The patient s doctor will determine a schedule for the changing of wet to dry dressings. Carol james a certified wound ostomy and continence nurse at medstar visiting nurse association demonstrates how to safely change the bandage on a wound a. If the dressing gets wet change it. Moisture that stays on the wound can stimulate the growth of bacteria and fungus causing the wound to become infected.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Because of the decrease in blood perfusion lack of oxygen impairs the ability of bacterial clearance from the wound bed leading to a higher risk of tissue infectability. Changing a wet to dry dressing wash hands with soap and water. Should the wound does not excrete excessive fluids change the dressings after every bath time.

If the dressing is soiled with blood or drainage or becomes soiled with mud or dirt you should change the dressing. Wound dressing should be changed when the fluids soak through. Remove the gauze from the wound.