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Silver dressings: the continuing challenges

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Silver dressings: the continuing challenges

Heather Newton
31 May 2011

The development of a wound infection can have potentially serious implications for patients.

As well as delayed healing, wounds can rapidly deteriorate and, if left untreated, patients are at risk of septicaemia and death (Newton, 2010).

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