Carrel-Dakin treatment

Carrel-Dakin treatment

(kăr-ĕl′dā′kĭn) [Alexis Carrel, Fr.-U.S. surgeon, 1873–1944; Henry D. Dakin, U.S. chemist, 1880–1952] A method of wound irrigation first used in 1915. The wound is intermittently irrigated with Dakin's solution.