Cleaning Wounds and Wound Healing
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 Published On Mar 30, 2023

How do you clean a wound? What is wound debridement? Why is it important?

We've talked a lot about wound healing in the first two videos of this five part series and now we're going to get into the wound itself.

We're going to make it clear how wounds can be cleaned and how the wound bed can be prepared for optimal healing!


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If we've optimized the systemic factors, improved the local factors, now what can we do to the wound to help it heal?

Let me give you a helpful acronym:

TIME

Tissue debridement
Inflammation/Infection
Moisture
Epithelial edge advancement

I'll go into each of these in detail and you've have a thorough understanding of wound bed preparation and how to remove barriers to healing.


Check out these AMAZING timestamps and fast forward if you need to:

Start 00:00
What is wound bed preparation 05:04
Tissue Debridement 06:33
Inflammation 12:37
Moisture 14:21
Epithelial edge advancement 15:56


REFERENCES
Wound Bed Preparation https://citizensurgeon.co/woundbedprep

WHO AM I?
I'm Dr. Erik Pearson, FACS and I am a board certified pediatric surgeon living in Las Vegas. I make surgical education videos on all topics in general surgery as well as talks on lifestyle design as a surgeon, book reviews, and studying effectively. I also write a weekly newsletter called the Saturday Six where I identify Six different discoveries of the week. You can get the weekly newsletter by signing up to the CITIZENSURGEON Community!

DISCLAIMER
While my aim is to help educate you for the ward, the surgical ICU, the operating room and your exams remember these videos are not a replacement for your reading, your medical school and residency preparation and most important your own decision making. If you have medical questions definitely consult a medical professional. Good luck and enjoy!

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