Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary. BET 2: potato peel dressings for burn wounds.

摘要

A short-cut review was carried out to establish whether potato peel dressings are better than gauze alone in the acute management of burns. Nineteen papers were found using the reported searches, of which three presented the best evidence to answer the clinical question. The author, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results and study weaknesses of these best papers are shown in table 2. It is concluded that there is no evidence to show that potato peel is of benefit in the acute phase, but that sterile potato peel dressings are better than gauze alone in the healing phase.