Why combine a foam dressing with ibuprofen for wound pain and moist wound healing?

International Wound Journal

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages 1-3

  Price, Patricia ^a   Fogh, Karsten ^b   Glynn, Chris ^c   Krasner, Diane L ^d   Osterbrink, Jürgen ^e   Sibbald, R Gary ^f  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Wound and Skin Care Department   (United States)

^e Nuremberg City Hospital   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BUFEXAMAC; DICLOFENAC; ETOFENAMATE; FELBINAC; FLUFENAMIC ACID; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; PIROXICAM;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BANDAGE; CHRONIC WOUND; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RELEASE; EDITORIAL; FOAM DRESSING; HUMAN; LEG COMPRESSION; LEG PAIN; LEG ULCER; LOW DRUG DOSE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHOTOALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; BANDAGES; HUMANS; IBUPROFEN; PAIN; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34047206204     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2007.00310.x     Document Type: Editorial

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