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Effects on heart pumping function when using foam and gauze for negative pressure wound therapy of sternotomy wounds

BACKGROUND: Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has remarkable effects on the healing of poststernotomy mediastinitis. Foam is presently the material of choice for NPWT in this indication. There is now increasing interest in using gauze, as this has proven successful in the treatment of periphera...

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Autores principales: Malmsjö, Malin, Lindstedt, Sandra, Ingemansson, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21232105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-5