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Wounds

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...

Comparison of topical honey and povidone iodine-based dressings for wound healing: a systematic review and meta-analysis

This systematic review and meta-analysis were carried out according to PRISMA guidelines.41.

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...

Maggot debridement therapy in critical limb ischaemia: a case study

Four male patients and one female patient with CLI were treated with MDT between January 2013 and December 2017. All five patients had ulcers in the...

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,...