Look After Your Wounds With Pulse Lavage

Look After Your Wounds With 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 <A href="http://pulsecaremedical.com">pulse lavage</A>. 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.

As mentioned before, the machine is not very expensive. Because of the low cost of the machine, the session is also not very expensive. It is possible for patients on medical aids as well as cash patients to be able to come for sessions on weekly, daily, or even biweekly sessions.

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.

This kind of treatment cannot be done by just any one. It must be a clinically trained and qualified person that needs to do this. It should also be done in a very clean and sterile area to prevent any further infection. The best is to have it done in a doctor's surgery and or even hospital.

If you have chosen the oral route, you might find that the patient still feels a little pain while you work on the wound. This is because the oral medication does not numb the specific area but will take away some of the pain. Oral pain relievers is not always the most effective route to go, but will certainly help.

The force and the pressure of which the water will be coming out at can be adjusted to what is best for the specific wound. The pressure should be adjusted according to the amount of tissue in the wound that needs to be debrided and also how much slough is in the wound. All these things should be taken into account when this kind of hydrotherapy has been chosen to clean and treat the wound.

The higher the pressure of the hydrotherapy the more debridement will take place. If the pressure of the hydrotherapy is very high it might even hurt the patient quite a bit as well. Therefore, the patient's pain threshold should also be taken into account and if it is too sore for the patient you can adjust, the pressure down a little bit to maintain pain control.

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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