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.

This kind of irrigation is basically just a type of mechanical hydrotherapy that is used under a lot of pressure. They will usually use some normal saline water to debride wounds to try to get rid of the dangerous tissue that is also known as necrotic tissue. They also use the normal saline to irrigate the wound.

If a wound is cared for properly, and an infection is treated as soon as it starts, then there is no reason why a wound should take long to heal. Getting a wound to heal fast will in turn also prevent any infections. This is something that will really work both ways.

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.

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 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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