Debridement is integral to wound bed preparation by removing devitalised tissue, foreign material, senescent cells, phenotypically abnormal/dysfunctional cells (cellular burden) and bacteria sequestrum (biofilm). While the body of evidence to substantiate the benefits of debridement is growing, little is known about the cost-effectiveness of each debridement method. The purpose of this analysis...

Let us now revisit the patient MS. The clinician performed sharp debridement of the devitalized tissue with a scalpel. The remaining slough was removed using enzyme therapy--Santyl Collagenase, for example. The debridement revealed a stage III ulcer. The wound was irrigated daily with normal saline and lightly packed with a hydrogel-impregnated dressing (to provide moisture). The macerated skin...

Clinicians have knowledge, skill, and experience of the wound debridement methods and products available to them. To enable them to make informed decisions on which wound debridement processor product is the most appropriate, it is essential that clinicians have access to clinical and cost-effectiveness data. However, the lack of robust evidence to support wound care products is well documented...

A wound is a disturbance of the skin's and soft tissue architecture's normal structure function. Prior to further treatment, wounds with devitalized tissue, contamination, or leftover suture material benefit from debridement. Wound base preparation allows for orderly healing regeneration injured may improve performance specialist care products sophisticated biologic replacements. There are now ...

Mucormycosis has a mortality rate reaching 90%, and is imperative that therapy be initiated rapidly once a diagnosis is made.  Successful treatment consists of management of underlying risk factors, surgical debridement, and antifungal therapies. The dilemma whether or not to pursue extensive debridement presents when the wound is cultured positive but the patient is not systemically ill.&...

BACKGROUND Unprotected hydrodynamic debridement can produce aerosols, with the risk of cross-contamination and infection for patients and medical staff. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the hygienic safety and the role of aerosol prevention of a pulsatile debridement. METHODS & MATERIALS Bacterial emissions during debridement of chronic ulcer wounds of seven patients using the Debri-Jet hydrodynamic i...

Low Frequency Ultrasound Debridement (LFUD) provided by the Sonoca 185 is a new method of debriding wounds that is less traumatic, less painful, and can achieve faster healing rates (mean 2.5 times faster in prospective randomised trials vs. theatre sharps). It is bactericidal and enables many debridement cases to be performed by a podiatrist or wound consultant in a less resource intensive set...