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How often should wound dressing be changed?
Wound dressings are a type of bandages used to cover the wounds, and it’s important in preventing infections and allowing the healing of wounds. In this video, Prof Alun Davies explains how often wound dressing be changed to ensure healthy wound healing and prevent infection.
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There are many opinions as to how often you should change a surgical dressing on a wound, depending one on the type of surgery and what you think the state of the wound is going to be. But certainly they should at a minimum be changed every 72 hours, but in certain cases they should be changed at 48 and 24 hours.
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