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Question: If a patient has PVD and diabetes and has a necrotic/ischemic toe, do you cleanse with normal saline or just paint with povidone? My preceptor told me that you should never cleanse with normal saline, but did not tell me the rationale. Why ...

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Question: If a patient has PVD and diabetes and has a necrotic/ischemic toe, do you cleanse with normal saline or just paint with povidone? My preceptor told me that you should never cleanse with normal saline, but did not tell me the rationale. Why?...

Thanks, but there was no order for it actually. I asked her later on, and she told me that getting it wet can loosen the necrotic tissue and may spread infection which is already bad for diabetic/pvd clients.

Thanks.

She told me it's because of risk for infection. If I wet the wound by cleansing with normal saline, I would soften the necrotic tissue and possibly spread an infection.