Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and negative pressure wound therapy in the treatment of non-healing wounds

Submitted: May 30, 2018
Accepted: August 27, 2018
Published: September 27, 2018
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The purpose of this work is the evaluation of the results obtaineble by treating hard to heal wounds with the combination of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and Negative Wound Pressure Therapy (NWPT). Identify how HBOT and NWPT can act in synergy, in order to optimize tissue regeneration and promote a good quality healing and in shorter time. The study analyzes data of three patients affected, for more than six week, by lower limb wounds and treated at the Hyperbaric Center of Ravenna. The initial wound assessment was performed and a multi-therapeutic approach, HBOT and NWPT, was applied over a period of 3-6 weeks. The patients underwent to a complete healing after a maximum of 10 weeks of treatment compared to the 28-weeks average of other patients treated at the same facility (real data) and the 12-weeks average expected in the guidelines (benchmark). The combination of the two therapies, has led to a positive result
saving time and money; the individual use of them would have required more time and costs.

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Bissoni, C., Hoxha, K., Scalise, A., & Longobardi, P. (2018). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and negative pressure wound therapy in the treatment of non-healing wounds. Italian Journal of Wound Care, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/ijwc.2018.34

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