debridement

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These include debridement, antibiotics, wound gels, skin substitutes, off loading and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

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  1. noun Surgical excision of dead, devitalized, or contaminated tissue and removal of foreign matter from a wound.

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  • These include debridement, antibiotics, wound gels, skin substitutes, off loading and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. —  The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines
  • The surgical team carried out wound debridement (the removal of infected or dead tissue), skin grafts and removal of external fixators. —  Doctors Without Borders
  • Surgical debridement (removal of the infected tissue), antimicrobials, and proper dressing and salves to allow healing all can save a diabetic person from losing a toe, foot, or ankle. —  Readthehook.com - Current Articles
  • The writing group also recommended against arthroscopy with debridement or lavage, noting that evidence suggested its effects "were not statistically significant on the vast majority of patient-oriented outcome measures for pain and function." —  Blisstree
  • Current treatment of leg ulcers, caused by diseased veins in the legs, involves debridement - the removal of dead tissue from the ulcer surface. —  The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk
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  1. French débridement, from débrider, to unbridle, debride (from the likening of constricting bands of tissue to bridles), from Old French desbrider : des-, de- + bride, bridle (probably from Middle High German brīdel, rein).
 

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