Postoperative wound blistering: is there a link with dressing usage?
Practitioners on an orthopaedic ward used three different types of dressing on two groups of 100 patients who had undergone hip or knee operations, and compared the number of blisters that resulted. They describe their findings.
Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Wrexham, UK. sanjaygupta123@hotmail.com
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D019643:Arthroplasty, Replacement / Q000379:methods; D001458:Bandages / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001768:Blister / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing