A Case Report of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Post-Traumatic Raw Area

Abstract

Traumatic wounds vary from abrasions and minor skin incisions or tears to wounds with extensive tissue damage or loss and damage to bone and internal organs. The use of economic negative-pressure wound therapy for managing wounds and negative-pressure wound therapy is known for improving a wide range of acute and chronic wounds. This medical device involves applying a wound dressing through which negative pressure is applied and wound discharges drawn out from the wound. The treatment aims to prepare wounds for further surgery, reduce the rate of infection, and potentially decrease the time of wound healing. This technique has historical origins that go back to ancient times. Many concepts were hypothesized that wound care method includes rapid draining of the wound discharge, reducing the bacterial load of the wound, mechanical traction of wound edges by negative pressure and induction of wound surface hypoxia that activate local angiogenesis. Using Negative-pressure wound therapy to show our method s efficiency for wound care and healing will be presented. This case aims to present a 17-year-old Malay female patient present with post road traffic accident, presented to our department 18 days after the incident with a left leg injury with the sustained open comminuted left distal tibia and fibula fracture repaired by ortho team and skin and soft tissue loss at the same spot with the application of therapy is a relatively simple technique that should be taken into account when considering for treating open traumatic wounds to decreased bacterial burden as well as to prepare the wound for Skin graft and to reduce the hospitalization time.