SBU Alert is a service provided by SBU in collaboration with the Medical Products Agency, the National Board of Health and Welfare, and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions Technology and target group Vacuum assisted closure therapy is used for many different types of wounds that require secondary healing (i.e. from the wound floor and edges). Reasons could be that the wound...

PURPOSE To assess whether a combined treatment of low-frequency (25 kHz) ultrasonic-debridement systems followed by vacuum-assisted wound closure (VAC) produces a better outcome in deep sternal wound infections (SWIs) compared to that of VAC alone. METHODS We evaluated 45 consecutive patients (25 males) between January 2013 and December 2016, in whom deep SWI was treated with a combination of...

Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) has recently been adopted as an acceptable modality for management of sternotomy wound infections. Although generally efficacious, the use of negative pressure devices has been associated with complications such as bleeding, retention of sponge, and empyema. We report the first case of greater omental hernia as a rare complication of vacuum-assisted closure of ster...

1. Banwell, P. E., Evison, D., and Whitworth, I. M. Vacuum therapy in degloving injuries of the foot: Technical refinements. Br. J. Plast. Surg. 55: 264, 2002. 2. Joseph, E., Hamori, C. A., Bergman, S., Roaf, E., Swann, N. F., and Anastasi, G. W. A prospective randomised trial of vacuum-assisted closure versus standard therapy of chronic nonhealing wounds. Wounds 12: 60, 2000. 3. DeFranzo, A. J...

OBJECTIVE Vacuum assisted closure is a reported technique to manage complex wounds. We have utilized this technique by using simple locally available material in the management of our patients on outpatient basis. The objective of this study is to present our experience. METHODS This study was conducted from June 2011 to June 2013 at Dow University Hospital and Aga Khan University Hospital, K...

To the Editor: In reporting on the results of the Fluid Lavage of Open Wounds (FLOW) trial, Bhandari et al. (Dec. 31 issue)1 describe the initial management of open fracture wounds. According to their protocol, the investigators aimed to perform irrigation and débridement for skin and soft-tissue defects or to close wounds that had delayed union or nonunion with the use of grafting or muscle fl...

Background: Vacuum-assisted dressing is a noninvasive closure system of the wound, which makes localized and controlled negative pressure. Its mechanical tension reduces edema, stimulates granulation tissue formation and angiogenesis, and prepares the wound bed for closure. In this study, a patient has been presented, who suffered from serious lower extremity wounds due to arterial emboli, one ...

Models with explicit R-parity violation can induce new rare radiative decay modes of the W boson into single supersymmetric particles which also violate lepton number. We examine the rate and signature for one such decay, W → l̃γ, and find that such a mode will be very difficult to observe, due its small branching fraction, even if the lepton number violating coupling in the superpotential is co...

BACKGROUND Despite significant advances in the treatment of thoracic infections, complex lung abscess remains a problem in modern thoracic surgery. We describe the novel application of vacuum-assisted closure for the treatment of a lung abscess. The technical details and preliminary results are reported. METHODS After the initial failed conservative treatment of an abscess, minimally invasive...