Topical negative pressure for treating chronic wounds

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Ubbink, Dirk T ^a   Westerbos, Stijn Joël ^b   Evans, Debra ^c   Land, Lucy ^c   Vermeulen, Hester ^d  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Birmingham City University ^*

^c BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

*Wound healing; Bandages; Chronic disease; Humans; Randomized controlled trials as topic; Suction *methods

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CADEXOMER IODINE; PAPAIN; UREA;

CHRONIC WOUND; CINAHL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA SYNTHESIS; FOAM; GAUZE DRESSING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID DRESSING; HYDROGEL; INFECTION RATE; MEDLINE; NEGATIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURGICAL WOUND; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CARE; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 51349091183     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001898.pub2     Document Type: Review

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