Negative pressure wound therapy for open traumatic wounds.

CONCLUSIONS: There is moderate-certainty evidence for no clear difference between NPWT and standard care on the proportion of wounds healed at six weeks for open fracture wounds. There is moderate-certainty evidence that NPWT is not a cost-effective treatment for open fracture wounds. Moderate-certainty evidence means that the true effect is likely to be close to the estimate of the effect, but there is a possibility that it is substantially different. It is uncertain whether there is a difference in risk of wound infection, adverse events, time to closure or coverage surgery, pain or health-related quality of life between NPWT and standard care for any type of open traumatic wound.
PMID: 29969521 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Iheozor-Ejiofor Z, Newton K, Dumville JC, Costa ML, Norman G, Bruce J Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research