Diagnosing and managing wound infection.
This article describes the wound infection continuum in surgical, acute and chronic wounds. The phases are: contamination, colonisation, local infection and finally spreading and systemic infection. Clinicians need to be familiar with the signs and symptoms of local infection in order to put strateg...
| Published in: | Journal of Community Nursing Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 26 - 33 |
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| Format: | pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wound Care People Limited
Aug2022
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |