Hydrogels and Wound Healing: Current and Future Prospects
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Abstract
The care and rehabilitation of acute and chronic wounds have a significant social and economic impact on patients and global health. This burden is primarily due to the adverse effects of infections, prolonged recovery, and the associated treatment costs. Chronic wounds can be treated with a variety of approaches, which include surgery, negative pressure wound therapy, wound dressings, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. However, each of these strategies has an array of limitations. The existing dry wound dressings lack functionality in promoting wound healing and exacerbating pain by adhering to the wound. Hydrogels, which are commonly polymer-based and swell in water, have been proposed as potential remedies due…
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- Self-healing hydrogels
- Wound healing
- Chronic wound
- Wound care
- Wound dressing
- Medicine
- Intensive care medicine
- Surgery
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