# PPP 183 - Wound management with Gary Bain (AKA the Wound Guy) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/purple-pen-podcast-53605/ppp-183-wound-management-with-gary-bain-aka-the-wound-guy Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/purple-pen-podcast-53605/ppp-183-wound-management-with-gary-bain-aka-the-wound-guy.md Podcast: [Purple Pen Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/purple-pen-podcast-53605) Published: 2025-12-23T20:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.purplepenpodcast.com/ Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/purplepenpodcast/Wound.mp3?dest-id=433310 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/purple-pen-podcast-53605/episodes/ppp-183-wound-management-with-gary-bain-aka-the-wound-guy Duration seconds: 2571 ## Resource We talk to Gary Bain (AKA the wound guy) about the integumentary system, the stages of wound healing, the advantages of good old fashioned clean water for wound cleaning, guiding principles of dressing changes for inflammatory phase vs proliferation phase, when to use different types of dressings e.g hydrocolloid, the benefits of a wound selfie to check progress, advantages of compression bandages for accelerating wound repair, the importance of moisturising a closed wound and busting wound management myths. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/purple-pen-podcast-53605/episodes/ppp-183-wound-management-with-gary-bain-aka-the-wound-guy/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/purple-pen-podcast-53605/ppp-183-wound-management-with-gary-bain-aka-the-wound-guy.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.