Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Pulse Lavage Provides Great Safety To The Patient

By Rosella Campbell


Having a wound that has been created by undergoing an operation can be very sore. Not only will it be sore but also it needs a lot of care to prevent infection that will in turn slow down the healing process. The latest technology is the pulse lavage.

If there is, a lot of debridement to be done then there really is no use in putting the pressure of the hydrotherapy too low to prevent the patient from experiencing any pain, but no debridement takes place. This is why there are a few other options you can choose to prepare the wound for proper debridement and at the same time apply some pain control. This is how you do it.

If a wound is cared for properly, and an infection is treated as soon as it starts, then there is no reason why a wound should take long to heal. Getting a wound to heal fast will in turn also prevent any infections. This is something that will really work both ways.

Everyone knows that if you have for example an old sports injury, it will be sore when it gets cold. When you have an open wound when it is cold, the chances of the wound healing very fast are very slim, as cold weather does not promote fast healing. This is one concern that many people had about the hydrotherapy that is used on an open wound.

The saline will clean the wound and remove of the damaged tissue, but it will not be able to promote the healing of the wound, as the saline is cold. In fact, the cold saline might even go as far as slowing down the complete healing process.

Here is what you do to change this and make the concern vanish. You cannot really heat the saline up to a much higher temperature, as the salt in the saline water will then start forming crystals that can in turn also damage the wound bed. The best way you can do this is heating the saline up to normal room temperature.

While you are, busy with the irrigation of the wound and you notice some kind of an infection you should let the doctor know that was originally treating the wound. The reason for this is so that they can prescribe an antibiotic. You need to tell the doctor that you are busy with this kind of treatment.

The doctor will then be able to give you the antibiotic that you can mix with the saline water and then apply it directly to the wound. By using this very direct approach and minimally invasive approach, you can treat the infection directly and this will also prevent the infection from spreading. They also say that by using this kind of approach you will decrease the bio burden on the top surface of that wound and you will also be able to remove the tissue that was infected what the infection.




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