debridement
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Debridement is the medical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical, autolytic (self-digestion), or by maggot therapy.
Key facts
- Medical intervention.Name
- Debridement
- Medical intervention.Image
- Necrotizing fasciitis left leg debridement.JPEG
- Medical intervention.Caption
- Necrotic tissue from the left leg is being surgically debrided in a patient with necrotizing fasciitis.
- Medical intervention.ICD10
- 0?D
- Medical intervention.MeshID
- D003646
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Research
48,547 papers- Proteolytic enzymes and wound debridement: a literature review.Wounds : a compendium of clinical research and practice · 2024
- Factors influencing nurses' use of maggot debridement therapy.British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing) · 2024
- Enzymatic wound debridement.Journal of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing : official publication of The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society · 2008
- Debridement: controlling the necrotic/cellular burden.Advances in skin & wound care · 2004
- Debridement methods in wound care.Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987) · 2006
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- Image
- Necrotizing fasciitis left leg debridement.JPEG
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- Commons category
- Debridement (Skin)
- WordLift URL
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9 sectionsContents
- Types
- Surgical debridement
- Autolytic debridement
- Enzymatic debridement
- Mechanical debridement
- Maggot therapy
- See also
- References
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Debridement is the medical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical, autolytic (self-digestion), or by maggot therapy.
In podiatry, practitioners such as chiropodists, podiatrists and foot health practitioners remove conditions such as calluses and verrucas.
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