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Wound care

Tight glycaemic control and surgical site infections post cardiac surgery: a systematic review

We thoroughly reviewed studies that investigated the different glycaemic control conditions using CII with the incidence of SSIs in patients with...

Maggot debridement therapy to treat hard-to-heal diabetic foot ulcers: a single-centre study

Participants were recruited via convenient sampling from patients attending the Wound Care Clinic at Kuala Lumpur General Hospital for diabetic foot...

Incidence and prevalence of pressure ulcers in hospitals: 10-year cohort study

In this study, the incidence and prevalence of PU in acute hospitals showed a gradual decreasing trend from 2006–2015; however, after the sixth...

Use of a biosynthetic wound dressing to treat burns: a systematic review

In this systematic literature review, ‘Suprathel’, ‘effectiveness’, ‘safety’, and ‘cost’ were selected as keywords. Possible synonyms and alternative...

Extra-wound fixation: a modified tie-over dressing technique for skin graft

The medical records of 38 patients (30 male and eight female patients) aged 15–38 years (mean=25.4 years)were retrospectively analysed. Of these, 19...

Treating hard-to-heal ulcers: biocellulose with nanosilver compared with silver sulfadiazine

A prospective, randomised control trial was conducted at the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Prince of Songkla University,...

Use of dehydrated human amnion chorion membrane allograft on infected ruptured arteriovenous fistula: revision and closure

The individual in this manuscript provided the primary author with written informed consent for images obtained and for publication of these case...