Use of Acticoat™ dressings in burns: What is the evidence?

Burns

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 751-758

  Khundkar, Roba ^a   Malic, Claudia ^b   Burge, Tim ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acticoat ; Burns wounds; Level of evidence; Nanocrystalline; Nanocrystalline dressings; Silver dressings

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE ACETATE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE PLUS SILVER SULFADIAZINE; FUSIDIC ACID; MAFENIDE ACETATE; SILVAZINE; SILVER; SILVER NITRATE; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTICOAT; BIOMATERIAL; POLYESTER; POLYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGYRIA; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOSTASIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BURN; BURN DRESSING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DONOR SITE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EPITHELIZATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBROBLAST; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATINOCYTE; LIVER TOXICITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SKIN GRAFT; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND ASSESSMENT; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; ANIMAL; BANDAGE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BANDAGES; BURNS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; HUMANS; POLYESTERS; POLYETHYLENES; SILVER; SILVER SULFADIAZINE; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77955563727     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.04.008     Document Type: Review

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