Hygienic safety of a new hydrodynamic wound debridement system

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1426-1438

  Daeschlein, Georg ^a   Lehnert, Wolfgang ^a   Arnold, Andreas ^a   Haase, Hermann ^a   JÜnger, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMIC DEBRIDEMENT; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL STAFF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SAFETY; SKIN ULCER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VACUUM; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION;

AEROSOLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DEBRIDEMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 77956287335     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01653.x     Document Type: Article

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