Negative pressure wound therapy can be complicated to manage, adding to costs and workloads; potentially resulting in delayed discharge and pressure on resources. International expert guidelines recommend a simplified decision-making framework to help inform the appropriate use of NPWT1,2
NPWT has well-documented clinical benefits across acute and chronic wound indications,3-5 yet there may be obstacles to clinician confidence and timely therapy initiation.1,2
Experts recommend implementation of an evidence-based framework to simplify and optimise NPWT provision, and to help guide the selection of appropriate NPWT systems.
Prompt selection of a single-use NPWT system, such as PICO◊ sNPWT, for clinically eligible wounds can help to:
Reduce the number of NPWT options and simplify your inventory to help optimise the clinical benefits of NPWT using our proprietary traditional and single-use technologies. Clinical studies have demonstrated:
*n=96; compared to alternative ports.
**For healing progression compared to baseline trajectory and for healing compared with predictions for standard care; n=52 wounds. On responding to stalled chronic wounds of 44 weeks mean duration, the PICO system healed 56% of wounds an average of 10 weeks earlier than predicted with standard wound care dressings; n=9.
***Compared to traditional NPWT over a 12-week treatment period for VLUs and DFUs; n=161; ITT analysis.
****n=326.