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The Importance of Hydration in Wound Healing: Reinvigorating the clinical perspective [PDF]

, 2016
Balancing skin hydration levels is important as any disruption in skin integrity will result in disturbance of the dermal water balance. The discovery that a moist wound healing environment actively supports the healing response when compared to a dry ...
Cutting, K. F., Ousey, K., Rogers, A. A., Cutting, Keith, Rippon, Mark, Rippon, Mark G., Rogers, Alan A., Ousey, Karen   +7 more
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Interventional studies for preventing surgical site infections in sub-Saharan Africa - A systematic review. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: There is a great need for safe surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa, but a major difficulty of performing surgery in this region is the high risk of post-operative surgical site infection (SSI).
David M. Karuri, Aiken, Alexander M, Karuri, David M, Karuri, David M., Jana Macleod, Macleod, Jana, Anthony K. Wanyoro, Wanyoro, Anthony K., Aiken, Alexander M., Alexander M. Aiken, Wanyoro, Anthony K   +10 more
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Trichophyton as a Rare Cause of Postoperative Wound Infection Resistant to Standard Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy

Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2018
Fungal infections are rare causes of acute surgical wound infections, but Candida is not an infrequent etiology in chronic wound infections. Trichophyton species is a common cause of tinea capitis but has not been reported as a cause of neurosurgical ...
Sheema Gaffar, John K. Birknes, Kenji M. Cunnion   +2 more
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Wound healing and hyper-hydration - a counter intuitive model [PDF]

, 2016
Winters seminal work in the 1960s relating to providing an optimal level of moisture to aid wound healing (granulation and re-epithelialisation) has been the single most effective advance in wound care over many decades.
Cutting, K. F., Ousey, K., Cutting, Keith, Rippon, Mark G., Ousey, Karen   +4 more
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The application of the modified surgical wound dressing in wound care after tracheotomy

Regenerative Medicine Research, 2017
Introduction: This study was performed to observe the efficacy of a modified surgical wound dressing applied as part of decannulation wound care after tracheotomy.
Feng Mei, Wu Ying, Zhu Jing, Wu Xiaoling
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Addition of benzylpenicillin to antibiotic prophylaxis reduces deep sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery

Infection Prevention in Practice, 2021
Summary: Objectives: In Sweden, cloxacillin is recommended as the sole antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of surgical site infections after cardiac surgery.
Nadia Sandström, Anders Magnusson, Anders Wickbom, Örjan Friberg   +3 more
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Epidemiology and Microbiology of Surgical Wound Infections [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2000
ABSTRACT This study included 676 surgery patients with signs and symptoms indicative of wound infections, who presented over the course of 6 years. Bacterial pathogens were isolated from 614 individuals. A single etiologic agent was identified in 271 patients, multiple agents were found in 343, and no agent was identified in 62 ...
A, Giacometti, O, Cirioni, A M, Schimizzi, M S, Del Prete, F, Barchiesi, M M, D'Errico, E, Petrelli, G, Scalise   +7 more
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The microbiome of diabetic foot ulcers: a comparison of swab and tissue biopsy wound sampling techniques using 16S rRNA gene sequencing

BMC Microbiology, 2020
Background Health-care professionals need to collect wound samples to identify potential pathogens that contribute to wound infection. Obtaining appropriate samples from diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) where there is a suspicion of infection is of high ...
J. Travis, M. Malone, H. Hu, A. Baten, K. Johani, F. Huygens, K. Vickery, K. Benkendorff   +7 more
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Mycobacterium fortuitum Infections in Surgical Wounds [PDF]

Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2009
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), which include Mycobacterium fortuitum and M chelonae are rapidly growing mycobacteria, widely distributed in nature having been isolated from natural water, tap water, soil and water used in showers and surgical solutions [1].
K K, Lahiri, J, Jena, K K, Pannicker
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The effect of triclosan coated sutures on rate of Surgical Site Infection after hip and knee replacement : a protocol for a double-blind randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2014
Background: 187,000 hip and knee joint replacements are performed every year in the National Health Service (NHS). One of the commonest complications is surgical site infection (SSI), and this represents a significant burden in terms of patient ...
Reed, Mike R., Parsons, Nicholas R., Andrew P Sprowson, Roland Pratt, Asaad, Seif, Kevin Emmerson, Seif Asaad, Scott Muller, Cyrus D Jensen, Nick Parsons, Pratt, Roland, Muller, Scott, Mike R Reed, Ian Carluke, Paul Partington, Jensen, Cyrus D., Partington, Paul, Carluke, Ian, Sprowson, Andrew P., Emmerson, Kevin   +19 more
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