WOUND VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE

Wound vacuum assisted closure

Wound Vacuum Assisted Closure

Improving and maintaining quality patient care through the development and implementation of clinical protocols is an important facet in health care system. The resulting variability in patient care led us to develop a practice where clinical protocols clearly define standard practice, yet clinicians are empowered to deviate from the protocol according to their informed judgment.

Protocol development and evaluation is a formalized, ongoing process involving both nurses and physicians. Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) is an interactive wound therapy, which applies a negative pressure to the wound bed through an open-cell foam dressing. It ...