Debridement for surgical wounds

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Smith, Fiona ^a   Dryburgh, Nancy ^b   Donaldson, Jayne ^a   Mitchell, Melloney ^c  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Edinburgh   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRANOMER; EUSOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STREPTODORNASE; STREPTOKINASE; DEXTRAN; STREPTODORNASE PLUS STREPTOKINASE;

DEBRIDEMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SURGICAL WOUND; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; BANDAGE; PROCEDURES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

BANDAGES; DEBRIDEMENT; DEXTRANS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STREPTODORNASE AND STREPTOKINASE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84898716911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006214.pub4     Document Type: Review

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