Flaminal®: a novel approach to wound bioburden control
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Modern wound management requires that systematic assessment and treatment approaches be adopted in order to address the needs of the wound in a logical way. The frameworks of wound bed preparation using the TIME acronym (Dowsett and Ayello, 2004) and Applied Wound Management (Gray et al, 2006) are two such systems. Both require the assessment and management of the tissues in the wound (e.g. slough, necrosis), the control of exudate and an assessment and control of bioburden, as appropriate.
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