Abstract:

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of different natural dressings and the application prospect in athletic skin injury.
METHODS: “Surgical dressing, natural biomaterials, leptin and healing of wound” in Chinese and “surgical dressing, natural biomaterials, leptin and healing of wound” in English were utilized as search terms to retrieve the articles between January 1994 and December 2010. The articles related to natural dressings and skin injury were included, more than 33 documents were obtained from the computer screen, and 22 of them were involved for evaluation according to reading title, abstract, and complete text after duplicate documents were excluded.
RESULTS: Although traditional dressings had a certain moisture absorption and protection, they were easy to stick with the wound in the process of healing, resulting in secondary damage, and lack of capacity to stop bleeding, poor permeability. The dressings in clinical application and experiments were seldom prepared single raw material, usually one or several common synthetic materials, so as to make up the shortage of single material and make their respective advantage. At present nanometer silver dressings, composite dressings, bacteria synthetic fiber dressings had achieved good effect in animal experiments. However, most of the new dressings were still in the stage of clinical trials or probation, the material characteristics of various dressings and their own defects for a large-scale production and application are need to be further studied.
CONCLUSION: The development of dressings of athletic skin injury will focus on: on one hand should strengthen the bleeding, pain and promote the rapid wound healing of dressings; on the other hand can adapt to a variety of harsh environment, and enhancing the development of intellective dressings.