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Silver dressings and ointments have been used for many years because they have strong antimicrobial activity2,16 and silver ions are broadly toxic to viruses, fungi, yeasts and bacteria.16 However,...
Wound bacterial management is critical, therefore evaluation of CSS to determine a wound's status along the accepted bacterial contamination-to-infection continuum is important to any wound...
Patients ranged in age from 18 to 87 years. We assessed 11 wounds undergoing NPWT (10 patients in total) were imaged for bacterial fluorescence as part of this study. A beneficial effect of bacterial...
NICE8 defines antimicrobial stewardship as ‘an organisational or health-care system wide approach to promoting and monitoring judicious use of antimicrobials to preserve their future effectiveness’..
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...
There is more published evidence on the effectiveness of debridement in diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) than for venous leg ulcers (VLUs) and pressure ulcers (PUs).8 After debridement, systemic...
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