First, there truly is something called a "sucking chest wound." It’s not just a wound that makes everybody standing around go, ... Place your occlusive dressing over the wound.

The area of acute skin trauma should be covered with non-occlusive or occlusive dressings to support the healing process; ... they should also be educated about changing dressings and wound healing.

IT has been pointed out that the normal dry scab on a wound exposed to the air includes a superficial part of the dermis, and it was suggested that this is because the exposed dermal tissue is ...