Clinical Evaluation of Portable Wound Volumetric Measurement Devices

Nathaniel Chiang1, Odette A Rodda, Anna Kang

  • 1Nathaniel Chiang, MBChB, FRACS, is a Vascular Surgery Fellow, Department of Vascular Surgery, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand; Odette A Rodda, MBBS, BEH(Pmed), is a Vascular Surgery Registrar, Department of Vascular Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Anna Kang, MBChB, RNZCP, is a General Practitioner, Wellington, New Zealand; Jamie Sleigh, MD, MBChB, FANZCA, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Waikato Clinical School, University of Auckland, Hamilton, New Zealand; and Thodur Vasudevan, MD, FRACS, is a Vascular Surgeon, Department of Vascular Surgery, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand. This study was presented at the Australia and New Zealand Society for Vascular Surgeons conference held in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, in September 2010 and at the New Zealand Vascular Society held in Auckland, New Zealand, in February 2010.

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