Treating a leg accident wound and a fluid and blood collection after a road accident
Treatment type: Drainage, debridement, vacuum therapy and cold plasma
Session 1: at the first visit4
Session 1: draining the collection and debriding the necrotic skin4
Session 2: vacuum therapy3
Session 5: cold plasma3
Session 6
Session 73
Session 13: debridement and dressing3
These wounds followed a road accident, one on the shin and one near the ankle, and they had stayed open for about two months. Fluid and blood had collected under the skin of the shin, and part of the skin had become necrotic.
Before treatment began, we assessed the wound and the blood supply to the leg by examination and ultrasound. In the first session we drained the collection and removed the necrotic skin (debridement). Two sessions of vacuum therapy followed, and cold plasma was used in the fifth session.
The images on this page follow the treatment up to the thirteenth session; treatment is ongoing.
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