Do silver-based wound dressings reduce pain? A prospective study and review of the literature

Burns

Volumn 40, Issue S1, 2014, Pages S40-S47

  Abboud, Elia Charbel ^a   Legare, Timothy B ^a   Settle, Judson C ^a   Boubekri, Amir M ^a   Barillo, Dave J ^b   Marcet, Jorge E ^a   Sanchez, Jaime E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Disaster Response Critical Care Consultants LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Literature review; Reduce pain; Silver; Silver dressing; Silver study

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; SILVER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAUZE DRESSING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SILVER DRESSING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND DRESSING; BANDAGE; BURNS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BANDAGES; BURNS; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILVER; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84912575637     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2014.09.012     Document Type: Article

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