Clinical approach to wounds: Débridement and wound bed preparation including the use of dressings and wound-healing adjuvants

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Attinger, Christopher E ^a   Janis, Jeffrey E ^b   Steinberg, John ^b   Schwartz, Jaime ^b   Al Attar, Ali ^b   Couch, Kara ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALGINIC ACID; GLUCOSE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IODINE; MAFENIDE; SILVER NITRATE; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; ENZYME; GROWTH PROMOTOR; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT;

ANTISEPSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC WOUND; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETIC FOOT; FOAM DRESSING; FOOT ULCER; GANGRENE; GAS GANGRENE; GAUZE DRESSING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID DRESSING; HYDROGEL DRESSING; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LABORATORY TEST; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAGGOT THERAPY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSPARENT DRESSING; WOUND ASSESSMENT; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; BANDAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; INJURY; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VACUUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; BANDAGES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; ENZYMES; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LARVA; NECROSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33745514509     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000225470.42514.8f     Document Type: Review

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