In addition to the management of exudates and bacterial proliferation, wound debridement is an essential phase of wound bed preparation. In chronic wounds, surgical debridement should remove all non-viable tissues, reducing wound contamination.77 Debridement reduces the dysfunctional cell population70,71 and may help to stimulate cytokines and growth factors to restore the physiological healing process,76 which is the concept of using debridement to convert a chronic wound in an acute wound.