ArticleInternational wound journal2019
Incisional negative pressure therapy reduces complications and costs in pressure ulcer reconstruction.
Article in International wound journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Combined Therapy With Incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy and Penrose Drainage for Flap Surgery.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- Closed-Incision Negative Pressure Therapy: Scoping Review and Multidisciplinary Consensus Recommendations of the Spanish Observatory of Infection in Surgery.International wound journal · 2025Article
- Direct metagenomics investigation of non-surgical hard-to-heal wounds: a review.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2024Review
- Evolution of the urinary microbiota in spinal cord injury patients with decubitus ulcer: A snapshot study.International wound journal · 2024Article
- Negative pressure wound therapy for treating pressure ulcers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Closed Incision Negative Pressure Therapy versus Standard of Care in Reduction of Surgical Site Complications: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2023Article
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- The Role of Vacuum Assisted Closure in Patients with Pressure Ulcer and Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review.World journal of plastic surgery · 2019Review
- Effectiveness of high frequency ultrasound on pressure ulcer: A systematic review protocol of randomized controlled trial.Medicine · 2019Article
- Incisional negative pressure therapy reduces complications and costs in pressure ulcer reconstruction.International wound journal · 2019Article
- Closed Incision Negative Pressure Therapy for the Recipient Site in Head and Neck Reconstruction.OTO openArticle
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Abstract
Complications after pressure ulcer reconstruction are common. A complication rate of 21% to 58% and a 27% wound recurrence has been reported. The aim of this study was to decrease postoperative wound-healing complications with incisional negative pressure wound therapy (iNPWT) postoperatively. This was a prospective non-randomised trial with a historic control. Surgically treated pressure ulcer patients receiving iNPWT were included in the prospective part of the study (Treatment group) and compared with the historic patient cohort of all consecutive surgically treated pressure ulcer patients during a 2-year period preceding the initiation of iNPWT (Control). There were 24 patients in the Control and 37 in the Treatment groups. The demographics between groups were similar. There was a 74% reduction in in-hospital complications in the Treatment group (10.8% vs 41.7%, P = 0.0051), 27% reduction in the length of stay (24.8 vs 33.8 days, P = 0.0103), and a 78% reduction in the number of open wounds at 3 months (5.4 vs 25%, P = -0.0481). Recurrent wounds and history of previous surgery were risk factors for complications. Incisional negative pressure wound therapy shortens hospital stay, number of postoperative complications, and the number of recurrent open wounds at 3 months after reconstructive pressure ulcer surgery, resulting in significant cost savings.
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