Practicals · Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · General principles and basic techniques
Wound debridement
- Type
- Procedure
- Curriculum level
- PI - perform independently (NMC); perform independently (DrNB operative skills)
- Also called
- surgical debridement, debridement of infected wound
Videos and resources
- VideoSurgical Debridement2:40
- VideoWound Debridement with HydroClean | Medical Animation1:24
- +66 more links
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Where the curriculum asks for it
“Demonstrate wound debridement” ( NMC DM/MCh guidelines, page 7)
“Debridement, Fasciotomy, wound preparations for coverage.” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 20)
“Ability to debride an infected wound or a dirty wound” ( NBEMS DrNB direct 6-year curriculum, page 17)