Ok, medicine is different in different countries, but I am thinking that the oral and or iv abx’s werent effective; maybe the bacteria had set up a slough barrier and the poor guy just couldn’t heal? Immunocompromised? Anywho, some docs are good enough that they can estimate to the centimeter by using swabs to measure wound edges (notice how she marked with her finger on the swab how deep it went lengthwise and sideways) then showed it to her assistant, who was probably recording the measurements.
The cotton probably was soaked in some abx; you inject sterile water into the little glass vial which has the powdered form of the abx. Usually you inject into the client or mix into an iv when pharmacy can’t do it. I am thinking that they wanted direct contact with the bacteria and a higher concentration that wasn’t safe to give systemically because of potential side effects? I don’t speak more thaan a few words of Spanish and this is just my thoughts on watching the video and having watched wound care specialists. Doing it this way gives more freedom than the wound vac machines…

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