Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a high-powered parallel waterjet for wound debridement

ABSTRACT Current concepts of wound healing acknowledge the essential role of wound bed preparation in achieving a wound with good healing potential. Critical to wound bed preparation is the removal of necrosis, unhealthy tissue, foreign matter, and infection. One of the accepted methods of wound bed...

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Veröffentlicht in:Wound repair and regeneration 2006-07, Vol.14 (4), p.394-397
Hauptverfasser: Granick, Mark S., Posnett, John, Jacoby, BS, Michael, Noruthun, Shyam, Ganchi, Parham A., Datiashvili, Ramazi O.
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACT Current concepts of wound healing acknowledge the essential role of wound bed preparation in achieving a wound with good healing potential. Critical to wound bed preparation is the removal of necrosis, unhealthy tissue, foreign matter, and infection. One of the accepted methods of wound bed preparation is surgery. The high‐power parallel waterjet is a new surgical device, which allows the operator to remove very precisely undesirable tissue and debris with maximal preservation of viable tissue. A retrospective study was performed to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and economic impact of using this technique of surgical debridement. Forty patients who had waterjet debridements were compared with 22 patients with matched wounds who had conventional surgical debridement. The waterjet group had significantly fewer procedures (p
ISSN:1067-1927
1524-475X
DOI:10.1111/j.1743-6109.2006.00136.x