Negative-pressure wound therapy

Yes, the bridging therapies.

And this brings us directly to a highly controversial topic, negative pressure wound therapy, commonly known as NPWT or the wound vac.

It is an area fraught with clinical pitfalls and profound misunderstandings.

Let's lay down the law first.

It is never, under any circumstances, a substitute for proper surgical debridement, and it is never a substitute for definitive soft tissue cover.

Okay.

Let's unpack the physics and biology of how NPWT actually works before we explore the pitfalls.

Sure.