Patients with acute skin loss: Are they best managed on a burns unit?

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 26-29

  Hettiaratchy, S ^a   Moloney, D ^a   Clarke, J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute skin loss; Burn unit; Management

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METHOTREXATE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PATIENT CARE; PSORIASIS; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN GRAFT; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; WOUND CARE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BURN UNITS; DRUG ERUPTIONS; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LONDON; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; SEPSIS; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0035180225     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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