[Selection of wound dressings]

The successful wound treatment depends on the adequate local agents and the well selected dressing. There is not single universal dressing that suitable for the management of all types of wounds and a few are suitable for single wound in the all stages of wound healing. The base and the main goal of dressing selection to produce rapid and optimal wound healing, cosmetically acceptable too, to reduce pain, to prevent and control the bacterial state of wound, to decrease the quantity of wound secretion, to cause minimal distress to the patient, and to improve the quality of patient's life. Author gives a summerizing of the wound healing, a discussion about the wound related factors: e.g. wound type, wound surface, wound characteristics and the bacterial profile of wounds. He gives informations about the wound dressing collecting into groups and the classification of the different dressings.