Prevention and therapy of acute and chronic wounds using NPWT devices during the COVID-19 pandemic, recommendation from The NPWT Working Group
| Autor: | John Murphy, Csaba Tóth, Marcin Malka, Sudheer Karlakki, Mike Laukoetter, Lenka Veverková, Zsolt Szentkereszty, Marco Fraccalvierri, Martin Hutan, Wojciech Francuzik, Rolf Becker, Maciej Zieli´nski, Bartosz Mańkowski, Adam Bobkiewicz, Tomasz Banasiewicz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lcsh:Surgery lcsh:Medicine 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pandemic Health care medicine In patient 030212 general & internal medicine Intensive care medicine integumentary system business.industry Optimal treatment lcsh:R lcsh:RD1-811 Perioperative Surgical procedures npwt 3. Good health sars-cov-2 covid-19 business |
| Zdroj: | Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Journal, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 4-9 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2392-0297 |
| DOI: | 10.18487/npwtj.v7i2.58 |
| Popis: | Recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic leading to a rapidly increasing number of hospitalizations enforced reevaluation of wound management strategies. The optimal treatment strategy for patients with chronic wounds and those recovering from emergency and urgent oncological surgery should aim to minimize the number of hospital admissions, as well as the number of surgical procedures and decrease the length of stay to disburden the hospital staff and to minimize viral infection risk. One of the potential solutions that could help to achieve these goals may be the extensive and early use of NPWT devices in the prevention of wound healing complications. Single-use NPWT devices are helpful in outpatient wound treatment and SSI prevention (ciNPWT) allowing to minimize in-person visits to the health care center while still providing the best possible wound-care. Stationary NPWT should be used in deep SSI and perioperative wound healing disorders as soon as possible. Patient’s education and telemedical support with visual wound healing monitoring and video conversations have the potential to minimize the number of unnecessary in-person visits in patients with wounds and therefore substantially increase the level of care. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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