Understanding Debridement and Making the Right Choice for Each Patient

The guide describes the mechanisms of and indications for the debridement methods in current use: surgical and conservative sharp, mechanical, chemical, autolytic, and biological debridement. Wound care professionals will appreciate this in-depth guide to wound debridement as an aid to clinical decision making.

This white paper discusses the following topics:

• Definition of debridement
• Debridement in the wound bed preparation paradigm
• History of debridement
• Types of debridement and their use in wound care
• Slough versus eschar
• Factors in the debridement decision