#Exudate Management

[gauricmi]

Alginate Dressing: A Closer Look at its Role in Chronic Wound Management

Chronic wounds pose a significant challenge in healthcare, requiring specialized treatment to promote healing and prevent complications. Among the various wound care products available, alginate dressing stands out for its effectiveness in managing chronic wounds. Let's explore the role of alginate dressing in chronic wound management in greater detail.

Understanding Alginate Dressing

Derived from Seaweed: Alginate dressing is made from seaweed, specifically brown algae. This natural material is processed to create a highly absorbent and biocompatible dressing that is suitable for a wide range of wounds.

Gel Formation: When Alginate Dressing comes into contact with wound exudate, it undergoes a gelation process, forming a gel-like consistency that conforms to the shape of the wound. This gel provides a moist environment conducive to wound healing while facilitating the removal of necrotic tissue.

Absorbent Properties: Alginate dressing has excellent absorbent properties, capable of absorbing large amounts of wound exudate. This helps maintain a moist wound environment, reduces the risk of maceration, and promotes the formation of granulation tissue.

Benefits of Alginate Dressing in Chronic Wound Management

Exudate Management: Chronic wounds often produce excessive amounts of exudate, which can delay healing and increase the risk of infection. Alginate dressing effectively manages exudate by absorbing it into the dressing, thereby reducing the risk of maceration and promoting optimal wound healing.

Promotion of Granulation Tissue: Alginate dressing creates an ideal environment for the formation of granulation tissue, which is essential for wound healing. The moist environment provided by the dressing promotes cell migration and proliferation, facilitating the growth of healthy tissue.

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[sorrelpaws]

talking about work drama

[nateezfics]

it’s giving sexy villain couture 🩶🖤

[ctrl-lupin]

Goemon is terrifying

[dailyayao]

[rebouks]

Payback for the smashed mango >:)

[bcneheaded]

I was just thinking and... Artemis is not kind. yes, for all his friendliness, and all the fancy and amicable language and behaviors he displays outwardly to just about everyone who enters his shop... he's not genuinely nice. Artemis is a demon. in any verse of his, he used to be something akin to a spirit/god of LOVE, but was twisted into Wrath, or Hatred - which is the opposite. After leaving the pits of hell, having his little demonic tantrum and breakdown and finally growing weary and finding some semblance of clarity, he's grown out of what he was once again, and became something new. He's still wrathful, hateful, angry, and morose, but now he's so much more without even realizing. He's evolved and will continue to do so over time even if he stagnates for decades, centuries even. The friendships and relationships with other muses that he develops will influence his personality and the way he views things in time, as we've seen it happen already countless times ofc! And for those who did earn his respect and care, he does truly care for them and would gladly go out of his way for them (to what degree depends entirely on the level of closeness). But again.... Artemis is not kind, by nature and he hasn't been for a very, very long time. He was genuinely just plain and simple EVIL He was a villain - a monster, unrecognizable to how he acts now- doing horrible, unspeakable deeds for the pleasure of it. It's how he got the bones he wears in and on his body. So while he might be polite, charming even, and friendly - if he does not know you... he doesn't care about you nor what happens to you. If say for example, he sees you wandering that ruined cityside he lives in - rampant with entities that prey on the Living - and he saves you from being taken by evil spirits or demons? Chances are good that he did it for himself, or to be spiteful - to deny the other entities their prize (you / your soul). If he doesn't know you, the likelihood that he'll go out of his way for you is very low. But if there's something in it for him, some kind of reason as to why it might be worth his time and energy to actually step in... he might! But like all demons, it's good to be wary and to assume he doesn't care about you or your well-being, at least at first!! Artemis is not nice, but that doesn't mean he's malicious or cruel (anymore. not intentionally - he's quite literally under the mindset that he's just 'too old and tired for that nonsense'.) Artemis is manipulative, charming, cunning - he's everything you expect from a demon (though without a host, so he's certainly not attractive in any semblance of a conventional manner lmao - but he dresses well! and I think it's also telling just how-- *gestures at all that* --that he actually is, considering he's NOT attractive... but still puts people at ease, mostly, and can charm them to hell and back if he wanted to. He uses that not to manipulate people per say ?? like, he does not have an evil agenda by any means. He's just existing at this point, distanced from the gods and devils and just living his... life(?) if you can call it that. He's TRYING to do better. But he's still just... a demonic entity. A greater demon, for sure, if he had to be equated to some kind of level or whatever, but a demon nonetheless. But even for demons, there can be growth! and he is growing, very very slowly.

[gloriousmonsters]

sometimes i'm like. am i actually a narcissist? just for a moment. then i remember that from the ages of like 12-19 i eschewed all other photographs or more normal forms of decoration to keep a framed photo of myself on either my desk or my bedside table where i could look at it constantly. cuz i thought i looked cute and confident and no it did not occur to me i might like to have a photo of like, a family member or some cool trees or something i just took like 7 years to go huh wait other people don't keep a photograph of themselves on their desks? what do you do when you want to look at yourself go all the way to a mirror??? anyway it wasn't realizing this was unusual that made me stop the photo just got water damage

[happyk44]

in one corner are the girls. hestia is the mediator between the other two's dispute, gently coaxing them away from their violent desires and soothing them both over a cup of tea and some warm buttered bread, fully utilizing her sweet sisterly parenting

and in the other corner, hades is holding zeus over his head in air jail, one foot on poseidon's chest to keep him down because neither of them want to listen to the words "stop fucking fighting" and he is so so tired

[sisterdivinium]

...

[anghraine]

I forget what the opposite of strawmanning is called, but it's like ... I don't doubt that Tolkien genuinely disliked feminism, I just find it rather odd that his way of addressing this in his work seemed to be writing bitter, hard-edged, and incredibly eloquent women who give fantastic speeches about being fucked over by patriarchy. And either there's no real response from other characters or the response is deeply underwhelming, so I'm like ... okay, what are you even trying to do here?

These women are also usually very beautiful, in the interests of full disclosure, so you get all these ... like, tall hot women who do not fear pain or death!!! and are full of towering resentment at very real injustice and/or suffering. The details and nuances of these characters are quite different, but these characters obviously represent a type that Tolkien found compelling and kept returning to without really finding a solution to the problems these characters raise and pose.

I've read a lot of female characters by a lot of authors, and maybe it's just because my personal taste in female characters is really similar to Tolkien's, but few things click with me so much as Éowyn's speech to Aragorn, or Erendis's to Ancalimë, or Andreth's and Morwen's... everything, or even the shorter defiant responses we hear from Haleth, Aredhel, Niënor, Galadriel. There's even a trace of this with someone as improbable and deliberately unlikable as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, who confronted Saruman's men, survived imprisonment, and tottered out to hobbit glory.

I don't know, really. Maybe giving angry female characters kickass speeches was as far as he was willing to go with them. And to go by his favored types in male characters, he did have a taste for proud, attractive, talented, often abrasive, and hubristic characters regardless of gender. But it's not only a general type, IMO, when you've got a bunch of these women talking about gender specifically and its impact on them, so—I don't know, sometimes I just shrug and get on with my fandom life without trying to navigate the quagmire of intent. But it's definitely a question I return to.

So there's no real conclusion here. I guess I'll just leave you with my personal favorites! Here's Éowyn's response to Aragorn:

"All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more." (LOTR 767)

But also Erendis, my love:

"...Númenor was to be a rest after war. But if they[men] weary of rest and the plays of peace, soon they will go back to their great play, manslaying and war. Thus it is; and we are set here among them. But we need not assent. If we love Númenor also, let us enjoy it before they ruin it. We also are daughters of the great, and we have wills and courage of our own. Therefore do not bend, Ancalimë. Once bend a little, and they will bend you further until you are bowed down. Sink your roots into the rock, and face the wind, though it blow away all your leaves." (Unfinished Tales)

[empressluxuria]

I thought I looked really good in this outfit yesterday, so I wanted to share it :3

[restinthewest]

The most joyful and pure creature on the planet

[livsspecialinterests]

im looking for a photo to use for an ID card for my new job and I've just uncovered all these photos I took of myself before getting a haircut like a year ago and I just...

you guys don't understand I've literally never looked this hot

where the fuck did all this attitude come from I am NOT this person normally

some INTENSE 'call me daddy energy' going on here

[takitakidancetillthesunriseyea]

I don’t usually listen to music like MATZ, so I was really curious what the MV was gonna be like. But PLEASE OHMAGAH IM DYING. IT’S SO GOOD LIKE WHAt. The power MATZ holds is actually INSANE. Like- Like- *hyperventilates*

SEONGHWA??? PARK SEONGHWA??? IS THAT YOU KING?

Plz I need to sit down

Like- Just-

*screaming*

Hongjoong’s little Jack Sparrow walk- AND HIS COAT!!! (/┳Д┳)/\(┳Д┳\)

AnD-And the way they’re each wearing half of the silver teeth grills

(/┳Д┳)/\(┳Д┳\)(/┳Д┳)/\(┳Д┳\)

WAHHHH TOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOT

MATZ

[kurim-chis]

While I was fangirling over Welt, someone told me that Welt already had a wife.

Yeah, I know.

It’s me. I am the wife.