Conventional versus Instillation Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy for Severe Soft Tissue Injury in Open Pelvic Fractures: A Retrospective Review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We investigated the clinical features, current negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) management strategies, and outcomes of pelvic-perineal soft tissue infection after open pelvic fractures.

Materials and methods

We analyzed the data of patients admitted to our trauma center with pelvic-perineal soft tissue after open pelvic fractures over a 7-year period. We investigated the injury severity score (ISS), medical costs, number of NPWTs, time required to reach definite wound coverage, complications, fracture classifications, transfusion requirements, interventions, length of stay (LOS) in hospital and intensive care unit (ICU), and prognosis.

Results

Twenty patients with open pelvic fractures were treated with NPWT, and one patient who underwent NPWT died of pe

SUBMITTER: Choi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11790408 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature