Key result
Negative pressure therapy in emergency abdominal surgery is suggested to reduce healing time, complications such as dehiscence and infection, and hospital stay.
Why the study?
Does prophylactic negative pressure therapy reduce surgical site infections and complications in emergency abdominal surgery?
Does prophylactic negative pressure therapy reduce surgical site infections and complications in emergency abdominal surgery?
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Negative pressure therapy is highlighted as a strategy to reduce surgical site infections and complications in emergency abdominal surgery, though evidence gaps remain.
Mr Editor Infection at the operating site (ISO) is the most common postoperative surgical complication in general surgery. This is more frequent in cases of emergency interventions, compromises the patient's prognosis, causes high health costs, and significantly increases the risk of reintervention. Negative pressure therapy (NPT) is an innovative strategy that was proposed about two decades ago, and has been gradually replicated around the world. This means that there are still many gaps in the evidence when it is used in many diseases and under different contexts. Nevertheless, it allows obtaining conclusive results in the time of healing, reduction of complications (mainly dehiscence and ISO), decrease in hospital stay, among other factors.
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Picón‐Jaimes et al. (2023) conducted a letter in Emergency abdominal surgery. Negative pressure therapy (NPT) was evaluated. Negative pressure therapy in emergency abdominal surgery is suggested to reduce healing time, complications such as dehiscence and infection, and hospital stay.
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