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Background: It has been suggested that applying the negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) to a closedsurgical incision may hasten the healing of the incision and decrease the incidence of wound healing complications. The goal of this study is to present the new idea of a simple, self-made, low-cost wound vacuum dressing for closed-incision NPWT that may become an alternative to currently manufactured...
Surgical site infection (SSI) makes patient care more expensive by prolonging antibiotic usage and hospital stay. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has been recently reported as a preventive strategy to avoid SSI. We present a simple and low-cost vacuum dressing that may improve surgical wound healing and prevent high-risk wounds from complications.
Introduction: Venous leg ulcers (VLU) occur in 1\% of the adult population and are associated with chronic disability, diminished quality of life and high health-care costs. Treatment is often slow, difficult and recurrence is high because of inappropriate conditions of the wound bed. Patients and Methods: This study involves 14 patients with chronic venous ulcers larger than 100 cm\textsuperscript{2}...
Treatment of separate wounds on the same patient with one NPWT device may be challenging. We present novel, cost-effective technique for multiple wounds management.
Patients with diabetes mellitus are at increased risk of angiopathy, neuropathy and infection compared with healthy individuals and that may lead to foot disorders. Treatment is difficult challenging and if it is not successful it often run to lower limbs amputations.We present case report of 63 years old man after amputation of big toe and part of metatarsus due to diabetic foot syndrome, successfully...