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Surgical Debridement in Necrotizing Pancreatitis

2016
Pancreatic necrosis is a feared complication following acute pancreatitis, carrying a 10–20 % mortality. When surgical intervention is indicated, open necrosectomy remains the gold standard approach. Recent evidence demonstrating the advantage of delaying or even avoiding surgical intervention altogether has changed treatment paradigms and has opened ...
Baddr Shakhsheer, John Alverdy
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Evaluation of Antibiotic Duration after Surgical Debridement of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection

Surgical Infections, 2022
Background: Necrotizing soft tissue infection (NSTI) is known to be a medical emergency with high morbidity and mortality. Guidelines do not specify the optimal duration of antibiotic agents after completion of surgical debridements of NSTI, which has ...
Allison M. Kenneally   +6 more
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Clinical experience with surgical debridement and simultaneous meshed skin grafts in treating biofilm-associated infection: an exploratory retrospective pilot study

Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, 2020
Current treatment guidelines for biofilm-associated infections (BAI) recommend repeated sharp/surgical debridement followed by treatment with antimicrobial agents until the wound becomes self-sustaining in terms of a positive wound-healing trajectory ...
Sik Namgoong   +4 more
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Outpatient Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy Following Surgical Debridement: Results and Complications

Advances in Skin & Wound Care, 2018
OBJECTIVE: To present results and complications in a case series of outpatients with diabetic and neuropathic foot ulcers with exposed bone following surgical debridement treated with negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT).
E. Tamir   +4 more
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Debridement for surgical wounds

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Surgical wounds that become infected are often debrided because clinicians believe that removal of this necrotic or infected tissue may expedite wound healing. There are numerous methods of debridement available, but no consensus on which one is most effective for surgical wounds.To assess the effects of different methods of debridement on the rate of ...
Smith, Fiona   +2 more
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Dispersion Risk Associated With Surgical Debridement Devices

WOUNDS: A Compendium of Clinical Research and Practice, 2017
Surgical instrumentation is now available to facilitate wound debridement. The 2 primary options involve different energy applications, but both have the potential to spray. The Versajet II (Smith & Nephew, London, UK) utilizes a high-powered water jet to disrupt tissue and remove debris by means of the Venturi effect.
Mark, Granick   +4 more
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Debridement of cutaneous ulcers: Medical and surgical aspects

Clinics in Dermatology, 1991
Abstract Debridement may be defined as the removal of devitalized or contaminated tissue and foreign material from or adjacent to a traumatic or infected lesion. Many types of debridement exist, as shown in Table 1. Devitalized or contaminated tissue found in an ulcer consists of fibrinous material, nucleoproteins, collagen, and elastin.
J A, Witkowski, L C, Parish
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