Open AccessBreakthrough ideas leading to new futures: prologue
Author(s) -
Willy Christian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international wound journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1742-481X
pISSN - 1742-4801
DOI - 10.1111/iwj.12177
Subject(s) - medicine , negative pressure wound therapy , wound care , wound closure , intensive care medicine , futures contract , health care , surgery , wound healing , alternative medicine , pathology , financial economics , economics , economic growth
Since commercialisation almost 20 years ago, negative pressure wound therapy ( NPWT ; V.A.C.® Therapy; KCI USA , Inc., San Antonio, TX ) has been used to treat a wide variety of wound types and continues to evolve as research expands understanding of the mechanisms of action that enable this adjunct therapy to facilitate wound closure. In 2010, the educational International Surgical Wound Forum ( ISWF ) was created to facilitate discussion among experts from all over the world regarding modern wound treatment challenges and techniques. This is the first of two supplements, which are based on the 2012 and 2013 ISWF presentations and demonstrate the evolution of the role of NPWT in wound care. This first supplement provides an overview of current health care challenges and clinical practice and reviews evidence and experience using NPWT with instillation, which combines NPWT with computer‐controlled delivery and removal of topical solutions and suspensions to cleanse and/or treat wounds.