Open AccessMODERN WOUND DRESSING FOR WOUND INFECTION: AN OVERVIEW
Author(s) -
Novida Rizani
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indonesian journal of tropical and infectious disease/indonesian journal of tropical an infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2356-0991
pISSN - 2085-1103
DOI - 10.20473/ijtid.v3i1.201
Subject(s) - wound healing , wound dressing , antimicrobial , wound infection , medicine , wound care , surgery , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , materials science , composite material
When the tissue of skin is break means a wound is happens. To seal it, many choices of wound healing are available. Moist wound dressing can be better optional than the conservative ones. A bioactive agent that being added at the dressing in fact can increase healing rate of wound, moreover can subjugate wound infection caused by the pathogens, and also capable to prevent it. In this review, there are summary of modern moist wound healing, the wound pathogens, and some of sturdy bioactive agent for wound dressing. The treatment of wound infections using impregnated wound dressing by bioactive agent can also by antimicrobial agent that will striven against bacteria colonial.