Answer three questions about the wound to get a dressing-category recommendation with the reasoning behind it.
Educational reference only — not medical advice. Always follow your facility's wound-care formulary and protocols, and use clinical judgment. Wounds with spreading infection need prompt clinical evaluation.
Dressing choice comes down to managing moisture at the wound bed: too dry stalls healing, too wet macerates the surrounding skin. The standard framework taught in wound-care references:
Reassess at every dressing change: as the wound bed and exudate change, the dressing should change with them.
Match the dressing to three things: the wound bed (necrotic, sloughy, granulating, infected), the exudate level (none to heavy), and the wound depth. This selector walks through exactly that logic.
Highly absorbent dressings such as alginates or foam dressings, usually with a secondary dressing. Alginates are often used for deep or heavily exuding wounds.
Moisture-donating dressings such as hydrogels support autolytic debridement of dry necrotic tissue, per standard wound-care references.
Increasing pain, spreading redness, warmth, swelling, foul odor, fever, or delayed healing despite appropriate care all warrant prompt clinical evaluation.
Reviva tracks what was applied, when, and how the wound responded — dressing history tied to every assessment, with photos.
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