Clinical experience with an antimicrobial hydrogel dressing on recalcitrant wounds

Journal of Wound Care

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 287-293

  Wood, L ^b,c   Wood, Z ^b   Davis, P ^a,c   Wilkins, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Archimed Wound Care Division   (United Kingdom)

^c TVN Harrow PCT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Hard to heal wounds; Healing outcomes; Hydrogel; Iodine

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE OXIDASE; POTASSIUM IODIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID DRESSING; INJURY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN CARE; STANDARD; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BANDAGES, HYDROCOLLOID; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GLUCOSE OXIDASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SKIN CARE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77956853534     PISSN: 09690700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/jowc.2010.19.7.48902     Document Type: Article

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