Evidence based review of negative pressure wound therapy

Negative pressure wound therapy: an evidence-based analysis.

OBJECTIVE This review was conducted to assess the effectiveness of negative pressure wound therapy. CLINICAL NEED TARGET POPULATION AND CONDITION Many wounds are difficult to heal, despite medical and nursing care. They may result from complications of an underlying disease, like diabetes; or from surgery, constant pressure, trauma, or burns. Chronic wounds are more often found in elderly peo...

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy: A Clinical Review

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

Venous ulcers occurs in 1% of adult population and is associated with chronic disability, diminished quality of life and high health care costs. Treatment is often slow, difficult and challenging. Poor prognostic factors include large ulcer size and prolonged duration. Moreover the recurrence rates may be as high as 70%. We present case report of 58 years old woman with very large bilateral ven...

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

The purpose of this review was to evaluate mortality rates of open abdomen patients with severe peritonitis who received negative pressure therapy (NPT) versus open packing techniques as a method of temporary abdominal closure (TAC). Authors retrospectively reviewed consecutive records from five different surgical departments of patients who received NPT (V.A.C. technology) and open packing (OP...

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

It is presented the comparative analysis of treatment of 56 patients receiving blockers of H2 receptors, inhibitors of proton pomp both antihelicobacter eradication, and 58 people which complex included vacuum therapy by an original technique. At vacuum therapy within the first week of treatment there came ulcer clarification, its granulation, there is an epithelization and scarring. After shor...