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News from September 2009

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Advanced Wound Therapies in the Management of Severe Military Lower Limb Trauma: A New Perspective

Posted 18, September 2009

Lt Col S. L. A. Jeffery, RAMC
The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD, United Kingdom Correspondence: sjeffery@nhs.net Objective: The purpose of this article is to describe the treatment of injuries resulting from land mine explosions using a holistic approach that includes gauze-based negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and encompasses wound bed preparation, exudate management, and infection control. Method: In the treatment of 3 traumatic injuries, each requiring limb amputation, we describe the application of NPWT using the Chariker-Jeter system, which uses a single layer of saline-moistened antimicrobial gauze laid directly onto the wound bed. [...]

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