How Does Vacuum-Assisted Closure Work? ‌Negative pressure wound therapy involves a special dressing connected to a pump that gently draws fluid and infection from the wound. A nurse will: Clean the ...

Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) is a method of decreasing air pressure around a wound to assist the healing. It’s also referred to as negative pressure wound therapy. During a VAC procedure, a ...

Changes to end-of-life wound classification in a recent Minimum Data Set update should be a positive for long-term care, but regulatory and legal ambiguity still surrounded the new coding procedures ...

Artificial intelligence tools are dramatically cutting the time needed to diagnose, stage and treat complex wounds in the elderly. Ultimately, the promise of AI could lead to improved wound ...

Current standard-of-care procedures used to treat complex and chronic wounds are often highly invasive, with low efficiencies and high complication rates. To address the significant unmet medical ...