Title |
Comparison of healing rate in diabetes‐related foot ulcers with low frequency ultrasonic debridement versus non‐surgical sharps debridement: a randomised trial protocol
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Published in |
Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1757-1146-7-1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Lucia Michailidis, Cylie M Williams, Shan M Bergin, Terry P Haines |
Abstract |
Foot ulceration has been reported as the leading cause of hospital admission and amputation in individuals with diabetes. Diabetes-related foot ulcers require multidisciplinary management and best practice care, including debridement, offloading, dressings, management of infection, modified footwear and management of extrinsic factors.Ulcer debridement is a commonly applied management approach involving removal of non-viable tissue from the ulcer bed. Different methods of debridement have been reported in the literature including autolytic debridement via moist wound healing, mechanical debridement utilising wet to dry dressings, theatre based sharps debridement, biological debridement, non-surgical sharps debridement and newer technology such as low frequency ultrasonic debridement. |
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