Individually moulded silicone dressing in full thickness skin grafts.

Background: Full thickness skin grafting is a common technique for reconstructing defects in the head and neck area. We propose the use of an addition-cured silicone as an individually moulded silicone dressing to keep the vulnerable skin graft in place, prevent shearing forces and create a moist environment.

Method: The silicone dressing is applied directly on the graft, using a double cartridge system.

Novel silicone dressing in full thickness skin grafts - A retrospective controlled case series.

Purpose: The right choice of dressing after skin grafting, especially in the anatomically complex and aesthetically important head and neck area, is difficult. It is important to have a dressing which is durable and doesn't need a lot of dressing changes. This study introduces a novel, individually moulded silicon dressing; and investigates the number of dressing changes, durability of the dressing and the aesthetic outcome of patients receiving this new type of dressing, in comparison to a control group.

Mortality due to bloodstream infections and necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants.

Background: We evaluated the mortality due to nosocomial bloodstream infection (BSI) and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants in 229 neonatal departments participating in the German national neonatal infection surveillance system between 2000 and 2011.

Methods: For each infection type, we conducted a retrospective cohort study and a case-control study. In the cohort studies, the mortality risk due to BSI and/or NEC was estimated by calculating adjusted hazard ratios (AHRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using Cox proportional hazard regression with time the dependent variable infection.