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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"vacuum-assisted closure"”.
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INTERACTION OF NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY AND COMPOSITE BIOMATERIALS FOR SPINAL FUSION
… 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). However, NPWT …
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The use of Acellular Dermal Matrices in the Management of Complex Traumatic Wounds in a Paediatric Population
… loci of the ADM in situ. The mean time to closure with this method was 3 weeks and the mean hospital stay was 26 days. Two patients were lost to follow-up and were excluded from the morbidity analysis arm of the study. Discussion We found that post-operative physiotherapy, occupational …
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Negative Pressure Wound Therapy - Effects on Sternotomy Wounds and the Intrathoracic Organs
… emphasize the beneficial effects of temporary closure provided by NPWT on restoring the intrathoracic anatomy.