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Pulse Lavage System Use

 

Pulse Lavage is designed as a disposable device that combines liquid spray and vacuum hoses with an illuminating LED light and purifies the operation area from foreign matter and bacteria. This pressure wound washing system, which is produced lightly and easily to be carried, has two different speed levels that can be adjusted according to the operation area.

Led Lavage completely cleans the surgical operation area by removing both bone and soft tissues, residues and wastes. The duration of use by specialist physicians in operations is 5 minutes.

 

Considerations for the Use of Pulse Lavage

• The pressure should be adjusted according to the patient's tolerance and amount of debris or necrotic tissues requiring debridement because the pressure force used when using Pulse Lavage is adjustable. The pressure force setting can range from 4 to 12 pounds, depending on the model. In order to increase the debridement, the pressure must be increased.

• Pulse Lavage can be used in long-term care facilities, outpatient physical therapy settings, acute care hospital bedside and many other patient environments thanks to its low cost and easy mobility.

• Normal saline solution bag should be warmed to room temperature so that Pulse Lavage does not slow down the wound healing process. Thus, this effect is minimized.

• If the patient's pain does not subside during the application, there are other methods that should be done. The wound bed can be pretreated with a tropical analgesic solution such as lidocaine 4% solution. Patients can be premedicated with appropriate pain relievers before the procedure.

• Antibiotics can be added directly to the normal saline solution if the wound shows clinical signs of infection. In this way, the biological load on the wound surface is reduced and the infected tissue is removed.

 

History of Pulse Lavage

The first traces of Pulse Lavage were seen in the 1950s with a discovery by Liedberg and his colleagues. They showed that skin grafts in rabbits were destroyed when bacterial concentrations of streptococci, pseudomonas or staphylococci were greater than 100,000 organisms per gram in tissues.

In 1969, Robson and Heggers realized that wound healing is possible only when the bacterial count is maintained at a concentration of 100,000 organisms per gram or less. Constantine and Bolton found that the presence of necrotic tissue or eschar in the wound or at the edge of the wound prevented the wound from contracting and closing.

Today, pressure wound washing applications are carried out in a very hygienic way in modern technological equipment and this application continues to develop day by day.