Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

By Margaret Heale, RN, MSc, CWOCN So after I last wrote, I was to assist with a dressing change, as the resident is more relaxed with somebody having their focus on her and not also trying to do th...

By Thomas E. Serena, MD, and Khristina Harrell, RN With apologies to Nietzsche: "What kills you makes you dead." The slow painful death of large and expensive in-person conferences has begun. Techn...

By Beth Hawkins Bradley RN, MN, CWON Finding the key to unlocking a non-healing chronic wound keeps us awake at night. Though we have, as bedside clinicians, learned much about the physiology and b...

Advanced therapeutic devices in wound care can be among your greatest tools for encouraging wound closure. However, it can be disappointing when you may have an advanced modality in mind, but it is de...

By Samantha Kuplicki, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGCNS-BC, CWS, CWCN, CFCN The Patient Assessment You've been asked to evaluate a patient for negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). It turns out they're a pe...

By Beth Hawkins Bradley RN, MN, CWON I am frequently asked for solutions relating to maceration to periwound skin in wounds being treated with negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). As a clinician...

By Bruce E. Ruben MD Little has been shown by specific randomized controlled trials to effectively speed the healing of a non-healing wound. Biologically, the human body is capable of healing once ...

Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is an advanced wound care modality using a sponge with an occlusive dressing connected to a pump that creates a negative pressure environment to promote wound he...

BSamantha Kuplicki, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGCNS-BC, CWS, CWCN, CFCN In my previous blog installment, we touched on some foundational elements of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). So, now that we are...