Safety and efficacy of a proteolytic enzyme for enzymatic burn débridement: A preliminary report

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 843-850

  Rosenberg, Lior ^a   Lapid, Oren ^a   Bogdanov Berezovsky, Alex ^a   Glesinger, Ronen ^a   Krieger, Yuval ^a   Silberstein, Eldad ^a   Sagi, Amiram ^a   Judkins, Keith ^b   Singer, Adam J ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burns; Debridase; Enzymatic d bridement

Indexed keywords

BROMELAIN; DEBRIDASE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANXIETY; APATHY; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BURN; BURNING SENSATION; CHILD; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEBRIDEMENT; DIARRHEA; DONOR SITE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSURIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT INFECTION; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PAIN; PARACENTESIS; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHLEBITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; STOMACH ULCER; TONSILLITIS; TRACHEA DISEASE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BROMELAINS; BURNS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOLYTIC AGENTS; MALE; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 8844242612     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.04.010     Document Type: Article

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