The properties of an "ideal" burn wound dressing - What do we need in daily clinical practice? Results of a worldwide online survey among burn care specialists

Burns

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 960-966

  Selig, Harald F ^a,b   Lumenta, David B ^c,d   Giretzlehner, Michael ^e   Jeschke, Marc G ^f   Upton, Dominic ^g   Kamolz, Lars P ^a,c  

^a Section of Plastic Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery   (Austria)

^b Hospital for Hand Surgery Bad Neustadt   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burn wound; Dressing; Ideal; Internet; Online; Survey

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; BURN DRESSING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; INTERNIST; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; NURSING STAFF; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; SOUTH AMERICA; SURGEON;

BANDAGES; BURNS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84866038159     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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