Emergency Management of Difficult Wounds: Part I

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-121

  Ball, Vincent ^a   Younggren, Bradley N ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS TOXOID; DOXYCYCLINE; MANNITOL; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID;

ALKALINIZATION; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BITE WOUND; CAT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CRUSH TRAUMA; DOG BITE; EMERGENCY CARE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33947623115     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2007.01.003     Document Type: Review

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