Journal
BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 9, Issue 13, Pages 4523-4540Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1bm00411e
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81671828, 31500807]
- Taishan Scholar Program, China
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This article discusses the challenges in burn wound management, introduces the design considerations of hydrogels for burn wound healing, and available polymers for hydrogels in burn wound care.
Acute and chronic wounds can cause severe physical trauma to patients and also result in an immense socio-economic burden. Thus, wound management has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, burn wound management is still a major challenge in wound management. Autografts are often considered the gold-standard for burn care, but their application is limited by many factors. Hence, ideal burn dressings and skin substitute dressings are desirable. With the development of biomaterials and progress of tissue engineering technology, some innovative dressings and tissue engineering scaffolds, such as nanofibers, films, foams and hydrogels, have been widely used in the field of biomedicine, especially in wound management. Among them, hydrogels have attracted tremendous attention with their unique advantages. In this review, we discuss the challenges in burn wound management, several crucial design considerations with respect to hydrogels for burn wound healing, and available polymers for hydrogels in burn wound care. In addition, the potential application and plausible prospect of hydrogels are also highlighted.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available