More And More Patients Are Using Pulse Lavage

By Rosella Campbell


When you have a wound, you really need to look after it and clean it on a regular base. Sometimes the best way to make sure the wound is clean is by undergoing a procedure called pulse lavage. This is a type of hydrotherapy. The machine that is used for this mechanical hydrotherapy is very easy to move around and is also not very expensive. One can use this machine at various setups and institutions. It can be used in a doctor's surgery, at hospitals, at acute care institutions, outpatient clinics, and even general therapy setups.

If there is, a lot of debridement to be done then there really is no use in putting the pressure of the hydrotherapy too low to prevent the patient from experiencing any pain, but no debridement takes place. This is why there are a few other options you can choose to prepare the wound for proper debridement and at the same time apply some pain control. This is how you do it.

One of the first things you can do is pre medicate the wound bed. You can do this by applying some kind of topical analgesic solution or even a local anesthetic cream on the wound about thirty minutes before you actually start the procedure. If the wound is too big, or you do not feel comfortable, putting something on the wound then there is another option.

About thirty minutes before you actually start the procedure you can give the patient a strong analgesic or pain killer, as it is also known. This can be given to the patient by means of a tablet, a suspension or even if needed, an injection. This would calm the patient down a little bit and then it will also prevent the patient from suffering from any pain during the procedure.

By having it done at a hospital or even at the doctor's surgery, you can be confident that the environment is clean, they know what they are doing, and they will have all the correct equipment to be able to perform these kinds of procedures. There are so many things that one needs to do to prepare both the patient and the wound before you can actually start with the mechanical hydrotherapy. To follow is the five most important tips that the clinically qualified person that will be performing the procedure needs to remember.

Here is what you do to change this and make the concern vanish. You cannot really heat the saline up to a much higher temperature, as the salt in the saline water will then start forming crystals that can in turn also damage the wound bed. The best way you can do this is heating the saline up to normal room temperature.

Some people might find this difficult to do, but it really is very easy to do this. Here is what you do. While you prepare the patient and the wound, take a bottle of saline water, wrap it in a towel and put it right up against the patient.

The doctor will then be able to give you the antibiotic that you can mix with the saline water and then apply it directly to the wound. By using this very direct approach and minimally invasive approach, you can treat the infection directly and this will also prevent the infection from spreading. They also say that by using this kind of approach you will decrease the bio burden on the top surface of that wound and you will also be able to remove the tissue that was infected what the infection.




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