Basic Principle

• Wound debridement is a process to remove dead or infected tissue, which helps to spur the body to produce healthy tissue to replace the diseased tissue. This method can be used on a wound or burn.
  
  

Tools Used

• Debridement can be performed by a number of medical tools, including surgical, chemical, mechanical or through using the body's own tissues.
  
  

Benefits

• Debridement helps to remove diseased or contaminated cells in the body, which helps to facilitate healing. Additional benefits include that debridement creates a more clean wound edge, which reduces scarring.
  
  

Side Effects

• Side effects associated with the debridement procedure includes bleeding, infection or pain.
  
  

Additional Uses

• Debridement also is useful for taking tissue samples.