Effect of honey dressing and silver sulfadiazine dressing for wound healing in burn patients:A Meta-analysis

VernacularTitle:蜂蜜敷料与磺胺嘧啶银敷料对烧伤伤口作用效果的Meta分析
Author: Miao CHEN ; Huiyi TAN ; Wenxia HE ; Xuemei YE ; Haiyan LI
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Burn wound; Honey dressing; Silver sulfadiazine; Dressing; Meta-analysis
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2014;30(19):16-20
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To compare the effects of honey dressing and silver sulfadiazine dressing for wound healing in burn patients by Meta-analysis.Methods All the randomized controlled trials were collected by searching many kinds of databases in or out of the country to compare honey dressing with silver sulfadiazine dressing for wound healing in burn patients.Review Manager 5.2 was used to analyze the effects.Results Six randomized controlled trials (RCT) were included.Honey dressing was much better than silver sulfadiazine dressing for burn wounds,while there were no significant differences in positive rate of wound swab culture and healing days.Conclusions It can be proved that honey dressing has an advantage over silver sulfadiazine dressing in the wound healing days within 21 and final outcome.Whether honey dressing is superior to silver sulfadiazine dressing in antibacterial effects and healing days remains to be studied with adequate,powerful,high quality randomized controlled trials.