Maggots for the management of purpura fulminans in a paediatric patient

Wounds UK

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 141-145

  Rodgers, Angela ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ANAEROBE; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE NECROSIS; BUTTOCK; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEBRIDEMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOOT AMPUTATION; FULMINATING PURPURA; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENERAL SURGERY; HAND; HEMOFILTRATION; HIP; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID DRESSING; HYDROGEL DRESSING; INDEX FINGER; INFECTION RISK; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LEG; MAGGOT; MAGGOT THERAPY; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MUSCLE FLAP; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASH; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN FLAP; SKIN NECROSIS; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WARD; THUMB; TOE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 73349090282     PISSN: 17466814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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