High bacterial load in negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) foams used in the treatment of chronic wounds

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 677-681

  Yusuf, Erlangga ^a   Jordan, Xavier ^b   Clauss, Martin ^c   Borens, Olivier ^a   Mäder, Mark ^b   Trampuz, Andrej ^d  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Center for Paraplegia and Craniocerebral Injury (REHAB)   (Switzerland)

^c Clinic for Orthopaedic and Traumasurgery   (Switzerland)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL LOAD; CHRONIC WOUND; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL STUDY; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DECUBITUS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOAM DRESSING; GEMELLA; HEEL; HUMAN; ISCHIUM; KLEBSIELLA; LOWER LEG; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SACRUM; SAMPLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; ULTRASOUND; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL LOAD; CHRONIC DISEASE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; POLYURETHANES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84883488241     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/wrr.12088     Document Type: Article

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