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DEBRIDEMENT [7 records]

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Record 1 2024-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
CONT

Procedural pain is brief, intense pain that arises from diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive procedures. It lasts from seconds to hours.... One of the most common source of procedural pain is needle puncture associated with venipuncture, intravenous cannulation, parenteral drug administration, and lumbar puncture. Wound debridement and wound cleansing also can cause pain, as can many other procedures.

Key term(s)
  • procedure induced pain
  • procedure related pain

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dentistry
CONT

The use of a calculus explorer is the most common way dental hygienists determine when they have finished root debridement...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie
CONT

D'autres [sondes] sont destinées à sonder le tartre (sondes à tartre).

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
OBS

Instruments designed to cut objects, materials, and/or tissues using two metallic ... blades with sharp edges that slide past each other (i.e., shearing action). The blades are usually attached to handles with the proximal end conformed as a ring to facilitate holding and operation with the fingers; both parts are joined by a swivel pin in the center.

PHR

Abdominal, bandage, brain, bronchus, cardiovascular, cast, dura mater, dissecting, episiotomy, eye, facelift, heart, intestinal, larynx, middle ear, nasal, postmortem, strabismus, surgical, suture, suture removal, tendon, tenotomy, thoracic, tonsil, umbilical, uterine, wound debridement scissors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Instrument formé de deux lames métalliques à extrémité pointue ou arrondie, tranchantes sur une partie de leur longueur, réunies et croisées en leur milieu par un pivot, munies d'un anneau permettant de les manier et utilisé, en chirurgie, pour sectionner ou dilacérer.

OBS

L'anglais établit une distinction entre «surgical scissors», qui couvrent toute la gamme des ciseaux utilisés en médecine, et «operating scissors», ciseaux utilisés plus spécifiquement pour les chirurgies. Cette distinction ne semble pas exister en français, bien que «ciseaux pour la chirurgie» et «ciseaux à chirurgie» semblent avoir un sens plus restreint que «ciseaux chirurgicaux».

PHR

Ciseaux angulés, droits, courbes, mousses, pointus, tranchants, émoussés, fins, stériles, à usage unique.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
DEF

The act of removing dead, contaminated or adherent tissue or foreign material [in the treatment of wounds].

CONT

Debridement encompasses enzymatic debridement(as with proteolytic enzymes), mechanical nonselective debridement(as in a whirlpool), and sharp debridement(by surgery).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
DEF

Dans le cas d'une escarre, action d'enlever tous les tissus dévitalisés, nécrotiques ou infectés présents dans la plaie.

CONT

Le débridement peut prendre plusieurs formes : chirurgical, mécanique, autolytique ou enzymatique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cirugía
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Record 5 2000-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
CONT

Treatment of infected fractures first involves controlling the infection through antibiotics and surgical debridement(the removal of contaminated tissue or material to prevent infection). Stabilization of the fracture is essential. A large number of these cases require soft tissue transfers to provide adequate coverage over the bone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Muscles and Tendons
CONT

Gartsman..., as part of a larger series, reported on 25 patients with full thickness rotator cuff tears treated with arthroscopic acromioplasty, resection of the coracoacromial ligament and subacromial bursa, removal of osteophytes, and a minimal debridement of the rotator cuff defect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Muscles et tendons
CONT

[...] le tendon du sus-épineux se trouve souvent coincé entre la tête humérale et le ligament coraco-acromial lors de l'abduction ou de l'élévation du bras («Impingement syndrom» de Neer).

Spanish

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Record 7 1995-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
CONT

Ten patients with active chronic osteomyelitis were treated with surgical debridement and local antibiotic therapy. On the basis of the sensitivity disk findings, vancomycin or amikacin was delivered locally through an external portable, electronically programmable micro pump. To connect the pump with the infected site Groshong or Buchwald catheters were employed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
CONT

10 patients (9 hommes, 1 femme) présentant une ostéomyélite en évolution, se traduisant par des fistules et des prélèvements bactériologiques profonds positifs, ont fait l'objet de cette étude.

Spanish

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