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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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Main Authors: Malmsjö, Malin, Lindstedt, Sandra, Ingemansson, Richard
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031203/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21232105
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-5
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