Functional Hydrogels as Wound Dressing to Enhance Wound Healing

Hydrogels, due to their excellent biochemical and mechnical property, have shown attractive advantages in the field of wound dressings. Chronic wounds are also mentioned, and the focus of attention on infected wounds, burn wounds, and diabetic wounds is discussed.

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• 1 However, a comprehensive review of the functional hydrogel as a wound dressing is still lacking.
• 2 This work first summarizes the skin wound healing process and relates evaluation parameters and then reviews the advanced functions of hydrogel dressings such as antimicrobial property, adhesion and hemostasis, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidation, substance delivery, self-healing, stimulus response, conductivity, and the recently emerged wound monitoring feature, and the strategies adopted to achieve these functions are all classified and discussed.
• 3 Additionally, applications of hydrogel wound dressing for the treatment of different types of wounds such as incisional wound and the excisional wound are summarized.

Understanding this could lead to better treatments, improved diagnostics, or a deeper grasp of how the human body works — benefiting patient care globally.

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