Alginates as haemostatic agents: Worth revisiting?

Wounds UK

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 122-124

  Timmons, John ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alginate dressings; Bleeding wounds; Cavity wounds; Exudate; Haemostasis

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CALCIUM ALGINATE; COLLAGEN; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; PLASMIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE WOUND; ANGIOGENESIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; CHRONIC WOUND; DECUBITUS; ERYTHROCYTE; FIBRIN POLYMERIZATION; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN ULCER; TISSUE REPAIR; WOUND; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 73449148388     PISSN: 17466814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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