Negative pressure wound therapy
Helping to manage different wounds
In wound care, treating each patient uniquely is essential, as no two wounds are the same. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), a breakthrough in wound management, offers an innovative approach to personalised care by creating an environment that promotes wound healing. By applying continuous or intermittent sub-atmospheric pressure, NPWT works to help remove exudate and infectious materials from the wound bed, reducing edema and promoting tissue perfusion and granulation tissue formation.
We offer a range of NPWT solutions to help patients across the continuum of care. Our solutions have been shown in comparative clinical studies to help reduce the cost of care and improve patient outcomes.3-5
Types of wounds
Our comprehensive NPWT portfolio help promote healing across diverse wound types and across the care continuum, including but not limited to:
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Indication(s) For Use / Intended Use:
The 3M™ Prevena™ Plus 125 Therapy Unit, when used with 3M™ Prevena™ Dressings (3M™ Prevena™ Plus Incision Management System), is intended to manage the environment of closed surgical incisions and surrounding intact skin in patients at risk for developing post-operative complications, such as infection, by maintaining a closed environment via the application of a negative pressure wound therapy system to the incision.
The 3M™ Prevena™ Plus 125 Therapy Unit, when used with compatible 3M™ V.A.C.® Dressings on open wounds (3M™ Prevena™ Plus Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System), is intended to create an environment that promotes wound healing by secondary or tertiary (delayed primary) intention by preparing the wound bed for closure, reducing edema, promoting granulation tissue formation and perfusion, and by removing exudate and infectious material. Open wound types include: chronic, acute , traumatic, subacute and dehisced wounds, partialthickness burns, ulcers (such as diabetic, pressure or venous insufficiency), flaps and grafts.
References:
- KCI. Cumulative NPWT Wounds—10 million. 2013-2015. Internal Report (v1.0). 2018.
- KCI. Percentage of V.A.C. Therapy Articles vs. Comp Articles. May 7, 2020
- Yang CK, Alcantara S, Goss S, Lantis JC 2nd. Cost analysis of negative-pressure wound therapy with instillation for wound bed preparation preceding split-thickness skin grafts for massive (>100 cm(2)) chronic venous leg ulcers. J Vasc Surg. 2015 Apr;61(4):995-9.
- Law A, Cyhaniuk A, Krebs B. Comparison of health care costs and hospital readmission rates associated with negative pressure wound therapies. Wounds. 2015 Mar;27(3):63-72.
- Kwon J, Staley C, McCullough M, Goss S, Arosemena M, Abai B, Salvatore D, Reiter D, DiMuzio P. A randomized clinical trial evaluating negative pressure therapy to decrease vascular groin incision complications. J Vasc Surg. 2018 Dec;68(6):1744-1752.
- Law A L Krebs B. Karnik B. Griffin L. Comparison of Healthcare Costs Associated With Patients Receiving Traditional Negative Pressure Wound Therapies in the Post Acute Setting. Cureus 12(11): e11790. DOI 10.7759/cureus.11790.
- Page JC, Newsander B, Schwenke DC, Hansen M, Ferguson J. Retrospective analysis of negative pressure wound therapy in open foot wounds with significant soft tissue defects. Adv Skin Wound Care/ 2004;17(7):354-364.
- Baharestani MM. Driver VR. Optimizing clinical and cost effectiveness with early intervention of V.A.C.® Therapy. Ostomy Wound Manage. 2008;54(11 Suppl):1-15.
- Kim PJ, Lookess S, Bongards C, Griffin LP, Gabriel A. Economic model to estimate cost of negative pressure wound therapy with instillation vs control therapies for hospitalised patients in the United States, Germany, and United Kingdom. International Wound Journal. 2022 May;19(4):888-894.
- Cooper HJ, Singh DP, Gabriel A, Mantyh C, Silverman R, Griffin L. Closed Incision Negative Pressure Therapy Versus Standard of Care Over Closed Surgical Incisions in the Reduction of Surgical Site Complications: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Comparative Studies. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open. 2023 Mar 16;11(3):e4722.
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- Ban, K. A., Minei, J. P., Laronga, C., Harbrecht, B. G., Jensen, E. H., Fry, D. E., Itani, K. M. F., Dellinger, P. E., Ko, C. Y., & Duane, T. M. (2017). American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 update. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 224(1), 59–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.10.029