debridement
Also known as debriding
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
Article
9 sectionsContents
- Types
- Surgical debridement
- Autolytic debridement
- Enzymatic debridement
- Mechanical debridement
- Maggot therapy
- See also
- References
- External links
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.