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Trial reportActa cirurgica brasileira2022

Simplified vacuum dressing system: effectiveness and safety in wounds management.

Sandro Cilindro de Souza, Carlos Maurício Cardeal Mendes, José Valber Lima Meneses, Rosana Menezes Dias

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Acta cirurgica brasileira, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sandro Cilindro de SouzaPh.D. Universidade Federal da Bahia - Instituto de Ciências de Saúde - Programa de Pós-Graduação - Salvador (BA), Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2888-6857
Carlos Maurício Cardeal MendesPh.D. Universidade Federal da Bahia - Instituto de Ciências de Saúde - Programa de Pós-Graduação - Salvador (BA), Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2089-5668
José Valber Lima MenesesPh.D. Universidade Federal da Bahia - Faculdade de Medicina - Departamento de Cirurgia Plástica - Salvador (BA), Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5538-7108
Rosana Menezes DiasNurse. Secretaria da Saúde do Estado da Bahia - Hospital Carvalho Luz - Salvador (BA), Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0030-2685

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeNegative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has revolutionized wound care, but its high cost reduces the procedure's availability. To solve the problem, streamlined vacuum dressings systems have been proposed, but the utility of these devices has been poorly studied. The objective of this study was to evaluate a simplified vacuum dressing system model (SVDM).

methodsRandomized clinical trial in which wounds were treated with SVDM compared to a complex occlusive dressing (silver hydrofiber, SHF). The analyzed outcomes were cleaning, presence of granulation tissue, clinical appearance, and indication for surgical closure of wounds.

resultsFifty injuries were treated (25 in each group), most located on lower limbs. SVDM proved to be more effective than SHF in the evaluated outcomes. Wound recalcitrance reduced the effectiveness of the equipment used. Despite its efficacy, complications occurred, the most frequent related to dressing changes: minor bleeding, foam adherence to a wound bed, and pain. Only for bleeding no favorable risk-benefit ratio was found. There were no severe complications, worsening conditions of injuries, or deaths.

conclusionsSVDM proved to be an effective and acceptably safe device for managing studied wounds.

Indexed as

Negative-Pressure Wound TherapyWounds and InjuriesBandagesHumansSurgical Wound InfectionVacuumWound Healing

Identifiers

PMID36515315
PMCPMC9746547

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