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Title The challenges of radiotherapy nursing. Coming out of the shadows and facing the sun. Download File
Author Clare Rahemtulla Radiotherapy Specialist Nurse, Janine Palmer Superintendent Radiologist
Publication Poster presentation, Wounds-UK conference, Harrogate, November 2006
Key Points 90% of patients who have radiotherapy experience skin side effects, from erythema to desquamation. Actiformcool can be used for pain relief and healing.
Title Use of an ionic hydrogel dressing on fungating wounds: Two Case Studies Download File
Author Marina Maund Private Nursing Practitioner
Publication Poster Presentation: WASA Conference, Johannesburg - May 2008
Key Points Actiformcool improved quality of life in fungating breast wounds and copiously exuding, malodorous sinus through pain relief and exudate management.
Title The use of topical antimicrobial therapy in burns patients: A case series Download File
Author Louise Baines
Publication Poster presentation, Wounds UK Harrogate, November 2010
Key Points A case series of seven patients with a variety of burn wounds treated with Suprasorb X+PHMB over a four month period. Burns give rise to generalised immune suppression which allows micro-organisms to multiply which, if left untreated, can lead to impaired wound healing.

Journal

Title A hydrogel that may help relieve sunburn and pain Download File
Author Eleanor Wilkinson
Publication Practise Nursing, 2004, Vol 15, No:11 565-567
Key Points Actiformcool greatly reduced pain of sunburn when other dressings could not.

Other

Title Management of an infected burn in a high dependency unit Download File
Author Sian Fumarola
Publication Skills for Practice: Understanding wound infection. Wounds UK,Aberdeen,2009
Key Points The management of a 38 year old lady who had sustained a neurological deficit, resulting in an infected burn to her shoulder. The plastic surgeon had prescribed topical silver sulfadiazine and tulle dressings daily. The wounds were colonised with methicillin resistant Staphlococcus aureus (MRSA). One wound contained 40% necrotic and 10% sloughy tissue and the second wound contained 60% slough.

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