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Any decision regarding wound debridement should be part of a holistic patient assessment. This assessment should consider the person's general condition, prognosis, health, and wishes. If, for...
Before initiating this study with human subjects, approval was obtained from Western Institutional Review Board (Washington, US). Written consent was obtained for the use of all details and...
Food and Drug Administration classification of wound dressings1.
The NIS database, developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), is maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). It is the largest publicly-available...
The concept of biofilm in human health and disease is now universally accepted.7 Biofilms are communities of bacteria, that have diverse characteristics, these include communication with other...
Existing technologies directed to the treatment of biofilms are intended to either penetrate the EPS that encapsulates the bacteria in a biofilm, or use dispersing agents, which typically target a...
Wound infection is defined as the presence of microbes in the wound, which multiply and cause a host reaction either locally, in surrounding tissues, or systemically.6 This host reaction is manifested...
Biofilms are now a major area of research for both clinicians and scientists. This research has increased significantly in the past decade due to advancements in emerging technologies and techniques...
‘Today, debridement refers to deeply removing adherent, dead or contaminated tissue from a wound and must be clearly separated from the act of cleansing, defined as the removal of dirt (loose...
Consequently, many wound care studies are of small scale and observational, constituting an immature body of knowledge with little transferability potential..
After applying a CTBP, as per manufacturer recommendation, to a variety of wound aetiologies and locations, a soft silicone wound contact layer was applied over the CTBP with overlap extending at...
Comparison of oxygen delivery therapies (not shown to scale). Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is given in a high-pressure chamber delivering 90 minutes of oxygen per day, five days per week. Topical...