What is the recommended way to dress a wound treated with AutoloGel?
• Place a barrier cream or protective skin prep on the intact skin around the wound to protect from maceration. • The N-terface (Winfield Laboratories, Inc) contact dressing included in the kit may be used as a guide to position the AutoloGel in the right location and can be packed loosely in the wound. Newly growing granulation will not adhere to it causing any tissue disruption upon removal. • Place a primary dressing over the AutoloGel and N-terface. This can be a moisture vapor permeable transparent dressing such as Tegaderm. Some clinicians write on it; Do not remove until x date. • Place a secondary dressing over the primary dressing. This can be a gauze pads or wrap or foam dressing to absorb any exudate. This can be changed often if it gets soiled, but the primary dressing should be left in place until the next AutoloGel treatment. How do you keep the AutoloGel in the wound bed when gravity is working to make it flow out of the wound? Try to position the patient so the wound is
