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Antibiotics (Basel)
December 2024
Combat Wound Care Group, CRT 4, United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
: Due to rising antibiotic-resistant microorganisms, there is a pressing need to screen approved drugs for repurposing and to develop new antibiotics for controlling infections. Current in vitro and ex vivo models have mostly been unsuccessful in establishing in vivo relevance. In this study, we developed a stringent ex vivo-burned porcine skin model with high in vivo relevance to screen topical antimicrobials.
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October 2024
Arizona Burn Center, Valleywise Health, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Over 40,000 patients in the United States (US) require hospitalization for burns annually. The treatment regimen can cost more than $6,000 a day and requires the use of numerous supplies to ensure the graft takes for successful wound healing. Irrigation of the wound is a critical step for burn treatment, yet little is known about the cost-effectiveness of different irrigation modalities.
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August 2024
Brooke Army Medical Center Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA.
J Burn Care Res
January 2025
The Burn Center, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010-2975, USA.
Recognition of invasive burn wound sepsis as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in burn-injured patients has profoundly changed the management of burn wounds and its associated complications. The development of effective topical antimicrobial therapy is one of the last major developments of modern burn care and has been driven by major world events and scientific breakthroughs. Topical antimicrobial burn care has evolved from the use of anecdotal remedies to scientific breakthroughs such as Moyer's successful dilution of silver nitrate solution, Fox's described benefit of silver sulfadiazine use in animal models, and Pruitt's dramatic improvement in post-burn mortality using topical mafenide acetate in burn wounds.
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January 2024
Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), Cologne-Merheim Medical Center, Witten/Herdecke University, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, 51109 Cologne, Germany.
Since burn wound infections caused by (PA) lead to major complications and sepsis, this study evaluates the antimicrobial efficacy of the wound irrigation solutions Prontosan (PRT), Lavanox (LAV), citric acid (CA) and mafenide acetate (MA) using microbiology assays and an ex vivo skin wound model. In suspension assays, all the solutions showed significant reductions in bacterial number (log reduction: CA 5.77; LAV 4.
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