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<blockquote data-quote="fourstates" data-source="post: 545116" data-attributes="member: 5918"><p>Keep the knee draining as long as possible. The best dressing to keep a wound draining is a "wet to dry" dressing. Cleanse the area well, covered with several layers of gauze soaked in normal saline (NS) , then cover with dry gauze, if possible try to put some of the soaked gauze into the opening of the wound. This will act as a wick and as the gauze dries, it will wick out the drainage. The gauze will stick to the wound and debride it..you don't want a scab to form, and you need to change it daily. Wrap the gauze with kerlix and wrap with the vet wrap. Just don't make airtight.</p><p> Allow the wound to heal from the inside out. When the dressing stops pulling the drainage from the wound, reevaluate if it need more serious debridment or is healing. I think the key to overcoming this type of infection is keeping it out of the bone itself, and giving it a "one two punch" by giving the antibotics and draining out the infected material. </p><p></p><p>I didn't know what you had going on under the vetwrap....and this is a human wound protocol. Hope this is something you can use...That is a beautiful calf. At least you know whats going on in your "projects" joints. Mine is still a mystery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fourstates, post: 545116, member: 5918"] Keep the knee draining as long as possible. The best dressing to keep a wound draining is a "wet to dry" dressing. Cleanse the area well, covered with several layers of gauze soaked in normal saline (NS) , then cover with dry gauze, if possible try to put some of the soaked gauze into the opening of the wound. This will act as a wick and as the gauze dries, it will wick out the drainage. The gauze will stick to the wound and debride it..you don't want a scab to form, and you need to change it daily. Wrap the gauze with kerlix and wrap with the vet wrap. Just don't make airtight. Allow the wound to heal from the inside out. When the dressing stops pulling the drainage from the wound, reevaluate if it need more serious debridment or is healing. I think the key to overcoming this type of infection is keeping it out of the bone itself, and giving it a "one two punch" by giving the antibotics and draining out the infected material. I didn't know what you had going on under the vetwrap....and this is a human wound protocol. Hope this is something you can use...That is a beautiful calf. At least you know whats going on in your "projects" joints. Mine is still a mystery. [/QUOTE]
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