CORR Insights®: Is EDTA Irrigation Effective in Reducing Bacterial Infection in a Rat Model of Contaminated Intra-articular Implants?

摘要

Wound irrigation improves visual assessment of the wound bed, hydrates wounded tissues, removes debris, and most importantly, reduces infectious organisms. The technique, in some form, has been used since wound management was first recorded by Sumerian surgeons, circa 2100 BCE [8]. Four millennia later, irrigation remains the most-effective method to cleanse a wound and reduce the number of infectious organisms in a wound [3].