title: Chronic wound bed preparation using a cleansing solution.
abstract: Chronic wound management remains challenging in clinical practice, especially in the presence of bacterial bioburden and slough. To resolve these clinical challenges, it is essential clinicians implement the TIME framework (tissue, inflammation/infection, moisture, edge of wound) as a model of effective wound bed preparation. As a result of advances in technology and wound care therapies, on the market today are products that can help reduce the wound bed clinical challenges recommended by the TIME framework. This article looks at a wound cleansing solution that reduces the wound bed bioburden by breaking down biofilms and debriding slough.
authors.affiliation: Tissue Viability Service Lead, Specialist Nursing Services, Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Teddington Memorial Hospital.
authors.forename: Edwin Tapiwa
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Chamanga
authors.affiliation: Tissue Viability Lead Specialist Nurse Wirral Community NHS Trust.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.affiliation: Podiatry Lead Diabetes and Wound Management, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Reading.
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hilston
authors.affiliation: Clinical Specialist Diabetes and Wound Management, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Reading.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sparke
authors.affiliation: Wound Manager, Seniorenpflegeresidenz HoffmannPark, Purkersdorf, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Johanna M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Jandrisits
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018441:Biofilms; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003646:Debridement; D004202:Disinfectants / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012996:Solutions; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D004202:Disinfectants; D012996:Solutions
keywords: Bioburden; Chronic wounds; Octenilin; TIME; Wound bed preparation