L-Mesitran Foam: Evaluation of a New Wound Care Product
Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine, 2022 Chronic wounds are a health problem that has devastating consequences for patients and their quality of life. Often, chronic wounds are stuck in the inflammatory phase or burdened with an infection.
Segametsi Mary-Jane Mthanti +2 more
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Testing A (Stringy) Model of Quantum Gravity [PDF]
, 2000 I discuss a specific model of space-time foam, inspired by the modern non-perturbative approach to string theory (D-branes). The model views our world as a three brane, intersecting with D-particles that represent stringy quantum gravity effects, which ...
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Materials & Design, 2020 In this work, a multi-layer wound dressing consisting of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) foam and electrospun sodium carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) surface mesh was developed and characterized.
Miaomiao He +7 more
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Patterns in the amount of discharge at split-thickness skin graft donor sites [PDF]
Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2019 Background Split-thickness skin grafts (STSGs) are commonly used in the reconstruction of skin defects induced by trauma or burns. Although STSGs are used to successfully treat various wound types, donor site wounds can be challenging, and complications ...
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Cost-effectiveness of treatments for superficial venous refluxin patients with chronic venous ulceration. [PDF]
, 2018 Background Venous leg ulcers impair quality of life significantly, with substantial costs to health services. The aim of this study was to estimate the cost‐effectiveness of interventional procedures alongside compression therapy versus compression ...
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Cost-Effective Use of Silver Dressings for the Treatment of Hard-to-Heal Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers [PDF]
, 2014 Aim To estimate the cost-effectiveness of silver dressings using a health economic model based on time-to-wound-healing in hard-to-heal chronic venous leg ulcers (VLUs). Background Chronic venous ulceration affects 1–3% of the adult population and
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Topical agents or dressings for pain in venous leg ulcers. [PDF]
, 2010 Venous leg ulcers affect up to 1% of people at some time in their lives and are often painful. The main treatments are compression bandages and dressings.
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Recovery of waste and side products of apatite-nepheline and eudialyte ores processing in manufacture of heat-insulating foam glassy-crystalline materials [PDF]
Vestnik MGTU, 2017 Overburden and dressing tailings accumulated in the Murmansk region in impressive volumes represent serious challenges of both economic and ecological character.
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Silastic Foam Elastomer for Dressing Open Granulating Wounds—A Preliminiary Report
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 1987 A preliminary report on the utility of silastic foam elastomer in the management of 32 open granulating wounds in 30 patients is presented. By offering more wound comfort to the patients and by relieving the work load of surgical residents and nurses ...
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Silicone-coated non-woven polyester dressing enhances reepithelialisation in a sheep model of dermal wounds [PDF]
, 2012 Negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) also known as V.A.C. (Vacuum-assisted closure), is widely used to manage various type of wounds and accelerate healing. NPWT has so far been delivered mainly via opencell polyurethane (PU) foam or medical gauze.
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