Débridement of the burn wound with sutilains ointment

Twenty-one patients with fresh full-thickness burns received a course of two daily applications of sutilains ointment to an area of their burn wound not exceeding 9 per cent of the body surface. Twelve had a mirror-image control burn site of equivalent depth and extent, which was treated identically except sutilains applications were omitted. Good débridement, defined as a wound free of adherent eschar, was observed in 9 patients (43 per cent)....