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Belitung Nursing Journal, 2022 Background: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) is considered an effective treatment in facilitating the healing of chronic wounds. However, its effect remains inconsistent, which allows for further investigation.
Asmat Burhan +2 more
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The detection of wound infection by ion mobility chemical analysis [PDF]
, 2020 Surgical site infection represents a large burden of care in the National Health Service. Current methods for diagnosis include a subjective clinical assessment and wound swab culture that may take several days to return a result.
Bechar, Janak +4 more
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Debridement for Surgical Wounds [PDF]
Critical Care Nurse, 2015 Surgical wounds that become infected are often debrided because clinicians believe that removal of this necrotic or infected tissue will expedite wound healing. There are numerous methods available but no consensus on which one is most effective for surgical wounds.To determine the effect of different methods of debridement on the rate of debridement ...
Smith, Fiona +3 more
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npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021 Diabetic foot infections (DFIs) are a major cause of hospitalization and can lead to lower extremity amputation. In this pilot study, we used a multiomics approach to explore the host–microbe complex within DFIs.
Michael Radzieta +9 more
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Delayed wound repair in sepsis is associated with reduced local pro-inflammatory cytokine expression [PDF]
, 2013 Sepsis is one of the main causes for morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Moreover, sepsis associated complications involving impaired wound healing are common.
Albig, Michael +7 more
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Early Wound Healing Score: a system to evaluate the early healing of periodontal soft tissue wounds [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: Numerous indices have been proposed to analyse wound healing in oral soft tissues, but each has specific shortcomings. A new method of analysis, the Early Wound Healing Score (EHS), was evaluated in the present study.
Aghazada, Rustam +4 more
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Using vacuum in the treatment of surgical wounds complications [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011 Background/Aim. Using vacuum in medicine has been known from long ago, however, it has not been used for the treatment of wounds. The first experiments in this field were performed by Wagner Fleischmann, University of Ulm, Ulm, West Germany, in 1993 ...
Drašković Miroljub +4 more
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Surgical site infections – an updated review of guidelines in the light of new scientific data
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023 Surgical site infections are important and still more growing burden in 2023. WHO estimated that SSIs are one of the most common and frequent healthcare associated infections (HAI), and in the world’s perspective, it can occur up to 10% after surgeries [
Sebastian Lechowski +4 more
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The Basic Surgical Skills course in sub-Saharan Africa: an observational study of effectiveness [PDF]
, 2017 Background: The Basic Surgical Skills (BSS) course is a common component of postgraduate surgical training programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, but was originally designed in a UK context, and its efficacy and relevance have not been formally assessed in
Fergusson, Stuart +3 more
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