Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

Clinical Experience of a New Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System in Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Post Amputation Wounds

Abstract

The main criteria and objective behind this comprehensive study was to access the benefits and outcomes while using the new Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) with the foot ulcers and post amputation wounds. Furthermore, another aim of the study was to determine the level of pains, extent of the exudates removal and the flexible applications of the NPWT for both the patient and the care giver.

Clinical Experience of a New Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System in Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Post Amputation Wounds

Introduction

The negative pressure therapy involves placing the surface of a wound at a pressure less than the ambient atmospheric pressure. For this, a specially made dressing is connected to a vacuum source and a system for collecting exudates. The use of negative pressure wound therapy should occur only after having considered, and in some cases tried conventional treatments.

Chronic wounds such as the pressure ulcers, diabetic foot wounds, and penetrating wounds are a significant health problem. For the patient, these wounds are painful and require most of the time a lengthy processes which are expensive.