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How are wound dressings looked after in the community?
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How are wound dressings looked after in the community?

Wound dressings are important in wound healing and preventing infections, so it is important to change and maintain the condition of the wound dressings. In this video, Prof Davies gives advice who to go to and where you can get your surgical wound dressings changed in the community after you have been discharged from the hospital.

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One of the key things about getting wounds and dressings looked after in the community is to have good liaison with either the district nurses or the tissue viability nurses or the nurses in a GP's practice. The standard way in which there is communication from the hospital scenario is for the ward nurses to communicate directly with these nursing staff who work in the community.

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