What is it about?
Reviews current methods and medical evidence for cleaning infected wounds. This is the first important step for getting a wound to heal. Simple irrigation and debridement are key components and often must be done frequently.
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Why is it important?
Wound healing will not progress with dirty colonized wounds. This approach takes the wound below the critical colonization level where wound granulation and healing will progress.
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This page is a summary of: Early wound bed preparation: irrigation and debridement, Journal of Wound Care, September 2021, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/jowc.2021.30.sup9.s8.
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