Debridement

It cleans and decontaminates fresh open contaminated wounds, removes blood clots and foreign bodies, removes lost tissue, and sutures the wound to minimize pollution, and even becomes a clean wound, achieving first-stage healing. Morphological recovery. Open wounds are generally classified as clean, contaminated, and infected. Strictly speaking, clean wounds are rare; accidental wounds will inevitably have different degrees of pollution; if the pollution is severe, the amount of bacteria is large and the toxicity is strong, it can become infected wounds after 8 hours. Head and facial wounds have good local blood flow, and debridement can still be performed on contaminated wounds 12 hours after the injury. Debridement is a basic surgical operation. The quality of the initial wound treatment plays a decisive role in wound healing and the recovery of tissue function and morphology at the injured site, which should be taken seriously.

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