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Assessing Exudate Behavior When Wounds Aren't Progressing

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I think everyone is a little bit different here. And I think we'd all like to have a good kind of clinical radar to where we can be pinged when something important is happening. And I think exudate can be something that's helpful or the lack of it. Sometimes things can be trapped in a kind of a glycosaminoglycan biofilm matrix and all that stuff can be kind of just stuck in there. And that wound just clearly needs to be surgically rebooted and reset. But in the absence of that, I think looking at dramatic changes coming in, whether this is a leg ulcer, whether it's a pressure injury, whether it is a foot ulcer or somewhere else, I think that drainage is likely really, really important. Wounds healing—you know, dark energy: It's probably really important, it probably takes up a lot of the kind of the mass of our clinical universe, but it's hard for us to measure it and to see it. We sort of see it, but not quite. But yet I think the future is bright because I think we're doing better in our ability to manage and measure this. 

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