The Combination of a Hypertonic Saline Dressing and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) for Quick and Bloodless Debridement of Difficult Lesions in Complicated Patients
Author(s) -
Marco Fraccalvieri,
Erind Ruka,
Umberto Morozzo,
Alessandro Scalise,
Marco Salomone
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
negative pressure wound therapy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2392-0297
DOI - 10.18487/npwtj.v2i2.14
Subject(s) - medicine , negative pressure wound therapy , debridement (dental) , wound healing , hypertonic saline , surgery , saline , burn wound , surgical debridement , intensive care medicine , anesthesia , pathology , alternative medicine
NPWT, also known as topical negative-pressure wound therapy, is widely used in managing and accelerating wound healing. However in wounds were slough is highly represented NPWT efficiency is low. In the patients included in this study clinical health conditions were precarious. We needed a rapid wound healing to not further compromise their health condition. So we added curity dressing to resolve the slough issue. In all the patients we observed slough reduction. This treatment provided beneficial for the patient, the surgeons and the National Health Service. Accelerating wound healing reduced hospitalization and thereby the patients achieved a reduction of risks of nosocomial infections and physical and psychological diseases.
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