SAN FRANCISCO — Investigators at Duke University Medical Center found a 10% rate of surgical site infection when negative pressure wound therapy was used in conjunction with wound closure compared to ...
Traumatologists who conducted a multicenter trial into closing high-risk lower extremity fractures with standard dressings vs. negative-pressure wound therapy found the vacuum-assisted closure ...
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN), the global medical technology company, today announces findings from a newly published, first-of-its-kind comparative study of ...
We report the incidence, causes, characteristics, and the outcome of traumatic corneal graft ruptures in a tertiary referral centre in the UK. A retrospective analysis of all graft ruptures secondary ...
Obesity has assumed epidemic proportions today. To overcome this problem, many morbidly obese people resort to gastric bypass surgery. This procedure is also recommended by doctors to avoid many ...
Among the 1,879 patients undergoing intra-abdominal procedures during the study period 56 patients were included in the validation group; the patients developed wound dehiscence during the ...
Authors review the indications and contraindications, as well as the risks and benefits, of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in chronic wound management. Wounds that fail to proceed through the normal phases ...
Analyzing real-world data from over 22,000 patients in the Premier PINC AI™ Healthcare Database, the analysis reveals that prophylactic use of PICO sNPWT (-80 mmHg) significantly reduces the risk of ...
A retrospective analysis was performed using the medical records of patients treated at a tertiary-care teaching hospital from January 2008 to December 2011. The study included a group of patients ...