[How to select and change a dressing].

To minimize pain when changing dressing for peripheral venous catheters, to select the adequate dressing in functions of the circumstances presented by each patient, and to utilize as references the recommendations by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs) form the fundamental bases for this article.

[Non-irritating skin protector].

In this article, the authors describe the multiple uses a non irritating cutaneous protector has as an effective tool against the aggressions which peri-lesion skin and other at risk skins suffer when they are subject to constant and direct contact with secretions and liquids resulting from the use of dressings based on wet cures, or systems of continence related to ostomias, or in those patients who suffer mixed incontinence where diaper rash makes it difficult to maintain and care for the skin.