POOR MAN'S VAC� REVISITED - AIR LEAKS IN NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND MANAGEMENT

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

Singh Mukul, Chauhan A, Singh Nk, Singh S, Nagarwal N, Manwatkar S, Tripathi S, Singh Rahul

Vacuum assisted closure has reformed the plastic surgery practice and wound management in the last decade and has become an established method

of wound management. The equipment though not inexpensive has become an essential part of all major plastic surgery departments in the western

world. In ideal world VAC Dressing equipment should be available at hand at all times but the shortage of equipment in developed countries or even

unavailability in developing world is a common phenomenon .

Due to which a lot of new methods are being tried to make vac dressing cheaper and easily available in developing countries. But with new

techniques come new flaws and a need to study and rectify those flaws. Our study aims to study the effect of air leak in patients with Vac Dressing

using Wall Mounted negative suction. We conducted the study on 34 patients to find out the effect of Air leak in Negative Pressure Wound

Management

AIM OF THE STUDY –

To find out the effect of presence of a leak in Vacuum Assisted Closure Devices.