Calcium alginate dressing-related hypercalcemia

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 203-204

  Ng, Raymond Wai Man ^a   Cheng, Yat Loong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM ALGINATE; ESOMEPRAZOLE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY SURFACE; BURN UNIT; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DEHYDRATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FLUID THERAPY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; OINTMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEPSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STRESS ULCER; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; WOUND DRESSING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGINATES; BANDAGES; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; FATAL OUTCOME; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEMOSTATICS; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEPSIS;

EID: 33846170100     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0B013E31802CA471     Document Type: Article

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