Should we be using silver based compounds for donor site dressing in thermal burns?

Burns

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1324-1325

  Nikkhah, Dariush ^a   Gilbert, Phillip ^a   Booth, Simon ^a   Dheansa, Baljit ^a  

^a East Grinstead Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JELONET; SILVER;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BURN; BURN INFECTION; BURN PATIENT; CYTOTOXICITY; DONOR SITE; EPITHELIZATION; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SILVER DRESSING; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

BANDAGES; BURNS; HUMANS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84880934786     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2013.01.023     Document Type: Letter

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