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When should a wound not be debrided?

Wounds that are healing well do not need to be debrided. Signs that a wound is healing well are a significant decrease in the size of the wound and the presence of granulation tissue (a beefy-red tissue within the wound that bleeds easily). 

If a patient is extremely sick, surgical skin debridement may also be a poor option. The surgical debridement of large wounds is similar in intensity to a moderate surgery. A patient that is too sick to receive anesthesia and be asleep for the debridement of a large wound should not have the surgical procedure. 

There is rarely any reason not to irrigate a wound. Keeping a wound clean and preventing it from completely drying out is important for healing.

What is skin debridement?

What are the different types of skin debridement?

How do you know if a wound needs skin debridement?

What happens during a skin debridement procedure?

How long does it take for skin to heal after debridement?

How do wounds heal after debridement?

* Savings estimate based on a study of more than 1 billion claims comparing self-pay (or cash pay) prices of a frequency-weighted market basket of procedures to insurer-negotiated rates for the same. Claims were collected between July 2017 and July 2019. R.Lawrence Van Horn, Arthur Laffer, Robert L.Metcalf. 2019. The Transformative Potential for Price Transparency in Healthcare: Benefits for Consumers and Providers. Health Management Policy and Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 3.

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