1. Benefits of negative pressure wound therapy with instillation in the treatment of hard-to-heal wounds: a case series.
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Latouche, Valérie and Devillers, Hervé
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WOUND care ,ANTIBIOTICS ,ARTERIES ,PRESSURE ulcers ,BLOOD circulation ,DIABETES ,DRUG administration ,GRANULATION tissue ,HOSPITALS ,HYPERTENSION ,OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases ,CASE studies ,MEDICAL care costs ,OBESITY ,PHYSIOLOGIC salines ,RISK assessment ,SURGICAL dressings ,TIME ,WOUND healing ,WOUNDS & injuries ,ALBUMINS ,TREATMENT effectiveness ,SURGICAL site ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,NEGATIVE-pressure wound therapy ,EVALUATION - Abstract
Objective: Impaired wound healing can lead to hard-to-heal wounds, which impact on patients, clinicians and healthcare systems. Negative pressure wound therapy with instillation and dwell time (NPWTi-d) was developed to manage wounds through early-stage cleansing. This study describes the use of NPWTi-d to help manage hard-to-heal wounds in patients with risk factors for impaired wound healing. Method: In this case series, patients were treated between October 2015 and March 2018 at a community hospital in western France. Normal saline solution was instilled into wounds with a dwell time of 10 minutes, followed by the application of negative pressure at −75 mmHg to −125 mmHg for 2–3 hours. If needed, patients were given appropriate oral or intravenous antibiotic treatment in conjunction with NPWTi-d and subsequent wound therapies. Results: A total of 15 patients participated in the study. Mean age was 81±13 years, and 12 (80%) patients were malnourished with blood albumin levels of 30.1±5.7g/l, and 12 (80%) patients were given antibiotic therapy. The mean duration of NPWTi-d was 19.4±20.8 days, with a mean number of dressing changes of 6.6±6.8; the duration of NPWTi-d and the number of dressing changes for pressure ulcers was three times that of the other wound types. The mean cost of NPWTi-d in this study was €1643.40±€1709.13. Overall, NPWTi-d provided early-stage wound cleansing and helped achieve adequate granulation tissue formation and progression to the next phase of wound healing. Conclusion: In these cases, NPWTi-d was a beneficial and effective method of treating hard-to-heal wounds that were resistant to traditional treatments, yielding favourable clinical outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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