Debridement for surgical wounds

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Dryburgh, Nancy ^a   Smith, Fiona ^a   Donaldson, Jayne ^a   Mitchell, Melloney ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRANOMER; ELASTOMER; EUSOL; PLACEBO; POVIDONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STREPTODORNASE; STREPTOKINASE; TOSYLCHLORAMIDE SODIUM;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CHEMICAL DEBRIDEMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEBRIDEMENT; ENZYMATIC DEBRIDEMENT; GAUZE DRESSING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PASTE; REVIEW; SURGICAL WOUND; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TISSUE INJURY; WET TO DRY DEBRIDEMENT; WHIRLPOOL DEBRIDEMENT; WOUND CLEANSING DEBRIDEMENT; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 55049118465     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006214.pub2     Document Type: Review

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