See more at www.woundeducators.com This is one in a series of videos developed by woundeducators.com where we discuss and demonstrate moist wound dressings. Some of the topics covered in this section are photographs, phases, biology, surgical, slide presentation, repair process in wound healing, nutrition, open, diabetic, delayed, scar, classifications, negative pressure, and prealbumin.
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Question by Karen L: Does anyone know why a wound care doctor has to keep removing the layers of skin that are healing?
This wound had an infection and seemed to be healing properly, but each time the person goes back they remove the skin again…
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Answer by Dinty Moore
Dead and necrotic tissue has to be debrided since it is a focus for infection and a hindrance to the growth of viable tissue as it granulates in to cover the wound. I doubt they are removing healthy normal tissue.
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Wound care center open for business at St. Vincent's
St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville has opened a new wound care center with three state-of-the-art hyperbaric oxygen treatment chambers. The limb preservation, advanced wound healing and hyperbaric therapy chambers each specialize in the …
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