Wound irrigation with tap water

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1076-1080

  Moscati, Ronald M ^a,b   Reardon, Robert F ^a   Lerner, E Brooke ^a   Mayrose, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Irrigation; Tap water; Trauma; Wound

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAP WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; LACERATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND IRRIGATION;

EID: 0031796491     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02665.x     Document Type: Article

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