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Realistic irrigation visualization in a surgical wound debridement simulator.

Wound debridement refers to the removal of necrotic, devitalized, or contaminated tissue and/or foreign material to promote wound healing. Surgical debridement uses sharp instruments to cut dead tissue from a wound and it is the quickest and most efficient method of debridement. A wound debridement simulator can ensure that a medical trainee is competent prior to performing a procedure on a gen...

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Controlling wound healing through debridement

The formation of slough (dead tissue) on a wound is widely accepted as an inhibitor to natural wound healing. In this article, a system of differential equations that models slough/wound interaction is developed. We prove a threshold theorem that provides conditions on the amount of slough to guarantee wound healing. As a state-dependent time scale, debridement (the periodic removal of slough) ...

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Ultrasound-assisted wound debridement device

Debridement takes away nonvascularised tissue and cells that may obstruct wound contraction, the formation of granulation tissue and the migration of epithelial cells from the wound edge (Falanga, 2000) to create This article describes a new type of mechanical debridement that uses lowfrequency ultrasound technology, and presents case reports that highlight the use of the Sonoca® (Soring) ultra...

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New techniques for wound debridement.

Debridement is a crucial component of wound management. Traditionally, several types of wound debridement techniques have been used in clinical practice such as autolytic, enzymatic, biodebridement, mechanical, conservative sharp and surgical. Various factors determine the method of choice for debridement for a particular wound such as suitability to the patient, the type of wound, its anatomic...

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Maggot debridement therapy in chronic wound care.

OBJECTIVE To review the current evidence on the mechanism of actions and clinical applications of maggot debridement therapy. DATA SOURCES Literature search of PubMed and Medline was performed up to January 2007. STUDY SELECTION Original and major review articles related to maggot debridement therapy were reviewed. Key words used in the literature search were 'maggot debridement therapy', '...

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery

سال: 1975

ISSN: 0003-4932

DOI: 10.1097/00000658-197506000-00001