Low-pressure negative-pressure wound therapy using the pleur-evac system in hemodynamically unstable patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Dorafshar, Amir H ^a   Agarwal, Shailesh ^a   Franczyk, Mieczyslawa ^b   Agarwal, Jayant P ^c   Gottlieb, Lawrence J ^b  

^a Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNUM; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DRAINAGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM;

EID: 77951067860     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181d45e9d     Document Type: Note

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