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A wound bed may be prepared by various non-surgical d’ebridements: autolytic facilitated by interactive dressings, larval therapy using sterile maggots and enzymatic débridements using collagenases. These are all effective in selected wounds but tend to be slow.
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Gonzalez Rodriguez de Azero, M., Vanwijck, R. (2008). Wound Bed Preparation by Hydrosurgery. In: Eisenmann-Klein, M., Neuhann-Lorenz, C. (eds) Innovations in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46326-9_17
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