Increasing the options for management of large and complex chronic wounds with a scalable, closed-system dressing for maggot therapy

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Felder, John M ^a   Hechenbleikner, Elizabeth ^a   Jordan, Marion ^b   Jeng, James ^b,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN UNIT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC WOUND; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIAPHORESIS; FEVER; GANGRENE; GOUT; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAGGOT THERAPY; MALAISE; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPERATING ROOM; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SKIN GRAFT; SUCTION DRAINAGE; TISSUE FLAP; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BANDAGES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84861182288     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e318233570d     Document Type: Article

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