Commercial Silver-Based Dressings: In Vitro and Clinical Studies in Treatment of Chronic and Burn Wounds
Chronic wounds are a major health problem because of delayed healing, causing hardships for the patient.The infection present in these wounds plays a role in delayed wound healing.Silver wound dressings have been used for decades, beginning in the 1960s with silver sulfadiazine for infection prevention for burn wounds.Since that time, there has bee