What is it about?
The tap water wound irrigation device works as well at cleaning wounds in an animal model as the commonly used expensive sterile saline wound irrigation system. The adoption of a convenient, effective, and inexpensive wound irrigation system using tap water could help save the health care system millions of dollars in direct costs, shipping, and would not be affected by saline shortages.
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Why is it important?
Health care costs continue to explode upward, and this tap water wound irrigation device can aid in saving worldwide healthcare systems millions of dollars and still provide the highest level of care for wound irrigation in patients with open traumatic wounds. Shipping costs can be reduced since heavy bottles of saline will be replaced with plentiful and inexpensive tap water. Manufacturing shortages of sterile saline are common, tap water wound irrigation only requires an available and potable tap water supply.
Perspectives
Physicians have been reluctant to use tap water wound irrigation because to date there has not been a suitable tap water delivery device. This device is easy to fill, simple to use, works well yet still provides the patient with a professional experience in the total wound management process. Widespread adoption of this tap water wound irrigation device could save millions of dollars in direct and indirect costs and would be removed from manufacturing shortages that are common in saline production. This study ads to the body of evidence that has proven tap water works well, but now in an easy to use system.
Brian Sloan
Indiana University System
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This page is a summary of: Comparison between a novel tap water wound irrigation device with sterile saline device in an open traumatic wound animal model, Trauma, June 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1460408619857399.
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