Exempel på debridement

• There is no antitoxin available for human use and patients died in the 2000 cluster despite debridement, antibiotics and intensive care.

• Surgical debridement was required for 66 % of the patients, but no deaths were reported.

• Recommended treatment included surgical debridement and culture of any injection-site infection, and the use of antibiotics with good anaerobic activity as part of empiric therapy.

• Patients who had an initial aortic valve debridement have had a similar outcome to those who had a commissurotomy alone.

• Surgical or mechanical debridement can damage healthy tissue or fail to clean the wound completely.

• Mechanical debridement can be easily accomplished by letting the saline gauze dressing dry before removal.

• Options include mechanical debridement with gauze dressings, sharp surgical debridement, autolytic debridement with occlusive dressings, or application of exogenous enzymes.

• Debridement is generally not necessary and should only be performed by an experienced oral surgeon.

• Surgical valvotomy and debridement may need to be considered as the preferred therapy.

• All infants with mediastinal infections were managed with operative debridement.

• All of the patients were treated with antibiotics, and most underwent tissue debridement.

• Enzymatic debridement can dissolve necrotic debris but whether it harms healthy tissue is debated.

• However, a substantial proportion of the therapeutic arthroscopies involved procedures of unclear efficacy, such as debridement or plica excision.

• The other three infants were well 1 year subsequent to debridement.

• Local treatment with debridement followed by regular antiseptic dressings is also important.