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Negative Pressure Wound Therapy - Mechanisms of Action and Protecting Exposed Blood Vessels in the Wound Bed
NPWT has recently been associated with severe complications and bleeding when used in wounds with exposed blood vessels. The aims of this work were to investigate the mechanisms of action of NPWT and to explore the possibility of using thin plastic discs to protect exposed blood vessels in the …
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Negative Pressure Wound Therapy - Effects on Sternotomy Wounds and the Intrathoracic Organs
Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has been widely adopted for the treatment of deep sternal wound infections due to its excellent clinical outcome. However, the mechanisms of action and effects on hemodynamics have not been thoroughly elucidated. The aims of the work presented in this thesis …
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Design and development of a smart, self-contained, portable negative pressure wound therapy device
Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a commonly used treatment in which the application of a low vacuum (-20kPa) is used to accelerate the recovery of chronic, hard-to-heal wounds. Costs of chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers are estimated to be $25 billion, with 6.5 million patients …
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INTERACTION OF NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY AND COMPOSITE BIOMATERIALS FOR SPINAL FUSION
… et al. 2009). Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) or vacuum assisted closure (VAC) has shown superior clinical results when used in combination with biomaterials to accelerate wound healing in treating complicated wound with exposed bone (Wijewardena et al. 2011, DeFranzo et al. 2001). …
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Development of a simplified negative pressure wound device
… known as negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), has not been readily used, although many patients would benefit. Aiming to expand this therapy, the viability of inexpensive, purely mechanical simplified negative pressure wound therapy (sNPWT) systems is explored in this thesis. Air leaks …
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Factores relacionados al éxito en el salvamiento de malla con terapia de presión negativa en los pacientes con prótesis infectada que se les realizó herniorrafia o eventrorrafia en la red hospitalaria Méderi entre 2018 – 2024
… tratadas con terapia de presión negativa (NPWT) entre 2018 y 2024. Se analizaron variables demográficas, clínicas y quirúrgicas, así como el espectro bacteriano y la susceptibilidad antimicrobiana. Se utilizó un modelo de regresión logística binaria para identificar los factores asociados …
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Cefazolin Concentration in Surgically Created Wounds Treated with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Compared to Surgically Created Wounds Treated with Nonadherent Wound Dressings
… treated with negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and group II wounds were treated with nonadherent dressings for 3 days. Dressings were changed and tissue biopsies obtained from wound beds at 24-hour intervals for both groups. Cefazolin wound tissue and plasma concentrations were measured by …
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Soft tissue Reconstruction of Gustilo-Anderson Grade IIIB Open Extra-Articular Tibial Fractures at a Tertiary Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa: A Retrospective Case Series
… relook time, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), soft tissue coverage and complications were recorded. Results: Most patients were males (n=18; 81.8%) with an average age of 39.3 years. Pedestrian vehicle accidents accounted for 45.4%(n=10), motor-vehicle accidents (n=6; 27.3%) and gunshot …
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The use of Acellular Dermal Matrices in the Management of Complex Traumatic Wounds in a Paediatric Population
… loss of the ADM, five were not treated with NPWT dressings. Noteworthy, is that all 45 patients who healed without any complication were treated with NPWT dressings. Biopsies that were performed on 18 patients at 2 weeks post application of the ADM, showed only granulation tissue. No evidence …
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Open abdomen therapy with vacuum-assisted wound closure and mesh-mediated fascial traction
Introduction: Several life-threatening intra-abdominal conditions may be treated with open abdomen (OA) therapy. Potential complications to OA treatment include damage to the exposed bowel resulting in enteric fistulas, and inability to close the abdomen afterwards resulting in large ventral …