How Does Vacuum-Assisted Closure Work? ‌Negative pressure wound therapy involves a special dressing connected to a pump that gently draws fluid and infection from the wound. A nurse will: Clean the ...

Dear Doctors: What is compartment syndrome, and how does it happen? I developed this following an embolism from hip replacement surgery. I had eight days on wound vacuum-assisted closure, plus ...

Advanced therapies in the treatment of complicated diabetic and non-diabetic foot and leg wounds are helping save limbs and improve the quality of life for individuals plagued by wounds that just ...

Gloria Miller, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, former vice president of reimbursement services at Comprehensive Healthcare Solutions Inc. shares which CPT codes to use. Q: What CPT codes and modifiers would be used ...

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The committee noted that the evidence for VAC Veraflo Therapy system compared with negative pressure wound therapy was mainly from retrospective observational studies of low methodological quality. It ...

The Aurix process removes a small portion of a patient's own blood, spins it in a centrifuge, separates plasma and growth factors and mixes it into a gel. The gel can then be directly applied two of ...

MediWound Announces New EscharEx® Phase II Data Demonstrating Strong Link Between Wound Bed Preparation and Wound Closure in Venous Leg Ulcers Post hoc analysis published in Advances in Wound Care, ...

The evidence assessed by the external assessment centre (EAC) included 19 studies, all of which were full-text peer-reviewed publications. Of the included studies, 9 were comparative studies (3 ...

When it comes to treating complex wounds, few innovations rival the transformative power of vacuum-assisted wound closure, also known as negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). At the Wound Center of ...