A ‘game of dressings’: Strategies for wound management in primary health care

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Wound care management and the dressing of wounds represent some of the most basic services offered in primary health care facilities across Southern Africa. Clinicians should have a basic understanding of the processes of wound healing and wound bed preparation to match the ideal cost-effective dressing to the particular type of wound to be managed. In the 'kingdom of wounds', the authors use a popular analogy and propose the best five strategies for the clinician in choosing the right management option in the 'game of dressings'.

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