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To the Editor: I am writing to comment on the research report by Klucinec et al entitled “Effectiveness of Wound Care Products in the Transmission of Acoustic Energy” (May 2000). The authors have done a great service to providers of wound care and their patients in demonstrating that various wound dressings have a high degree of variability in transmission of acoustic energy. However, I am concerned that some readers may miss the full impact of the article. First, only 4 hydrogels and 4 transparent film dressings were examined. In light of the variability of transmission found among these dressings, I believe that no assumption can be made about the transmission rates of any of the other hydrogels or transparent film dressings on the market (at least 14 hydrogels and 20 film dressings, by my count). This means that clinicians who want to provide known doses of ultrasound in wound treatment using a dressing interface would be limited to choosing among the dressings examined in this study. It would have been helpful to know why these brands of film dressings and hydrogels …
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