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Debridement

Important Terms to Know: Wound Balance

September 1, 2024
Learn terms related to wound balance to help guide your learning.

Integral Debridement for Complex Wounds: An Expert’s Insights

May 6, 2025
Wound bed preparation is a critical component of wound healing. It includes removing necrotic tissue, controlling infection, and promoting an environment conducive to tissue regeneration. ...

Integral Debridement in the Postoperative Setting: An Expert’s Perspective

May 7, 2025
Integral debridement is an advanced approach to wound bed preparation that involves the synergistic use of multiple debridement techniques to optimize wound healing. Learn more about how this strategy...

Integral Debridement Throughout the Continuum of Care

May 6, 2025
In this roundtable interview, a panel of experts shares their experience and top pearls for incorporating integral debridement into clinical practice....

Involving Patients in Care: Debridement Considerations

April 30, 2022
Patient-centered care is a philosophy that stresses communication, collaboration, and health promotion while also respecting patients' expectations, autonomy, and values. It is at the heart of global ...

Is NPWT Enough? Three Products Commonly Combined with Negative Pressure

February 8, 2013
By Beth Hawkins Bradley RN, MN, CWON Finding the key to unlocking a non-healing chronic wound keeps us awake at night. Though we have, as bedside clinicians, learned much about the physiology and b...

Maggot Debridement Therapy in the United States

June 20, 2019
By Ronald A. Sherman, MD The year 2019 began with a shadow over the field of biosurgery and a dark cloud over American health care: BioMonde, currently the largest producer of medicinal maggots in ...

Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

October 6, 2011
By Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWOCN, CWS, FACCWS Diabetic foot ulcers are one of the most dreaded complications of diabetes, and represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. It is estimate...

Managing Wound Infection with Debridement

December 31, 2020
Wound debridement is a critical strategy in treating hard-to-heal wounds. It is a process that expedites healing by removing necrotic tissue, non-viable tissue, and foreign material. It can also be us...

Methods of Wound Debridement

July 23, 2015
By Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWOCN, CWS, FACCWS There are four main types of debridement: mechanical, autolytic, enzymatic, and surgical. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s take a lo...
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