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This pandemic is a global threat which puts tremendous stress on healthcare systems. Italy is facing a shortage of PPE and healthcare workers, a lack of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators,...
Among the 25 included patients, 18 (72.0%) were male and seven (28.0%) were female, with a mean age of 59.6±13.5 years. Median wound area was 14.0 cm2 (6.0–100.0 cm2). The 25 patients were randomly...
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...
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 databases searched were PubMed, Cochrane, Google Scholar and Google Patents. The search was limited to published literature written in the English language. Search terms were identical for each of...
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...
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...
There is evidence to show that significant pain is often experienced by patients during wound care, specifically in relation to dressing changes.10 Therefore, pain may impact on patients' concordance...
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