To best promote wound healing and prevent infection, research supports the use of:
1. Topical silver.
2. Topical gold.
3. Normal saline.
4. Dankins solution.
Topical silver.
Rationale: Silver is a product that has come into wide use as a local antimicrobial agent, and continues to be a topic of research. Gold is not a wound care product. Normal saline and Dankins solutions are not antimicrobial agents, and therefore are not used for infection prevention.
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