Pulse Lavage Provides Great Safety To The Patient

By Rosella Campbell


It is very important to clean wounds often. This can be any kind of wound, whether it is a wound that formed after an operation or just a wound after you hurt yourself. The wound should be carefully looked after and one of the most effective ways to this is by using pulse lavage.

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.

The reason why it is good to irrigate and debride the wound by using the pressurized irrigation method is because this will promote the growth of certain cells that is responsible to form granulation tissue. This could happen without having the underlying tissue and wound bed disturbed. The negative pressure that could be created and caused by the suction can also stimulate the granulation of the cells.

Everyone knows that if you have for example an old sports injury, it will be sore when it gets cold. When you have an open wound when it is cold, the chances of the wound healing very fast are very slim, as cold weather does not promote fast healing. This is one concern that many people had about the hydrotherapy that is used on an open wound.

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 towel will prevent the cold bottle from touch the patient directly and to make to patient uncomfortable. The body temperature of the patient on the other hand, will help the saline heat up to a temperature that will help promote the healing of the wound but also low enough to prevent crystallization of the salt particles. It really is that simple. By doing this one very easy step, you will also help promote the healing of the wound, so that recovery takes less time.




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