Utilizing negative pressure wound therapy on open chest/sternotomy wounds

Wounds

Volumn 16 50, Issue 11 SUPPL. A, 2004, Pages

  Orgill, Dennis P ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMAN; NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; STERNOTOMY; THERAPY; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 11844251332     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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