ADVANCED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING DETECTS BIOBURDEN IN CHRONIC WOUNDS
posted: Nov. 27, 2019.
Advanced fluorescence imaging has the potential to decrease bioburden and significantly improve the healing rates of chronic wounds, according to the results of a case series investigation conducted in Cleveland. As well as targeting debridement to promote wound healing, fluorescence imaging was also found to be capable of providing positive revenues in an outpatient wound care setting.
Dr. Windy Cole |
Featured in the prize-winning oral abstract session at the Symposium of Advanced Wound Care Fall meeting, presenter Windy Cole, DPM emphasized that an optimally prepared wound bed which promotes healing must be regularly debrided to remove devitalized tissues, while a reduction of the bacterial load is also necessary. Despite the elimination of debris and slough at the base of the wound, Dr. Cole questioned “are we really getting rid of bioburden and affecting the bacterial contamination of the wound? We cannot see [biofilms] with our naked eye, but we can with the fluorescence imaging camera.”
Source: iWoundsnews
Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News.