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How to Perform Conservative Sharp Wound Debridement

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Debridement

Debridement is an important step in optimizing a wound or ulcer for functional healing. This evidence-based topic provides clinical, coverage and ...

Skin Tears - Treatment and Prevention

... Topic on skin tear management and prevention, with a concise algorithm which can be used at the point-of-care

Acute Burns - Treatment

Instead, an ointment (e.g, with essential fatty acids or vegetable oils) should be used to expedite wound healing. 2CFor partial thickness burn injuries with no ...

Pressure Ulcers/Injuries - Treatment

debridement techniques. As for choice of debridement for healable PUs/PIs ... Rationale: Most clinical guidelines do not provide guidance on use of ...

Acute Burns - Introduction and Assessment

See "Fluid Resuscitation" section in "Acute Burns - Treatment" for available calculation methods. Electrical injury. The pathophysiology of electrical burn ...

Venous Ulcers - Treatment and Prevention

Rationale: There is consensus in the wound care literature that debridement ... The guidelines also used Mostow's study [149] as a reference to their suggestion.

Diabetic Foot Ulcer - Treatment

Besides standard DFU care as described on this topic, management of healable infected DFUs includes debridement, topical antimicrobial agents, systemic ...

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

This topic provides an updated evidence-based review and reimbursement policies on the use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), with a focus on ...

Compression Therapy

This topic provides an overview on the use of compression therapy in the treatment of VLU (not for lymphedema). VLU is discussed in detail elsewhere (see " ...

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