Clinical experience with wound biofilm and management: A case series

Ostomy Wound Management

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 38-49

  Hurlow, Jennifer ^a   Bowler, Philip G ^b  

^a Plastic Surgery Group   (United States)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; BIOFILM; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; EXUDATE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN CARE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGINATES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BANDAGES; BIOFILMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; SKIN CARE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 67549124954     PISSN: 08895899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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