Successful treatment of hard-to-heal leg ulcers utilising multidimensional dressings including UrgoClean and UrgoClean Ag.
Following the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship policies, prescribing antibiotics for non infected, non-healing wounds is now actively discouraged. While this supports the antimicrobial stewardship programme it does not give alternatives for clinicians when faced with non healing and heavi...
| Published in: | Wounds UK Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 110 - 117 |
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| Format: | case study pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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SB Communications Group, A Schofield Media Company
2025
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