Patient Focused … Clinically Proven …
Outcomes Driven For more information please contact:
KCI International
Beech Avenue 54-80
1119 PW Schiphol-Rijk
The Netherlands
http://www.woundvac.com
KCI is a global corporation that provides a complete continuum
of protocol driven therapies to patients across all care settings through
a broad range of innovative therapeutic specialty beds, surfaces, and
related devices-KCI's Continuum of Care. All backed by a worldwide Network
of Service and Clinical Support.
Our Continuum of Care provides you with V.A.C.® Therapy (the revolutionary
wound closure system), and more than forty specialty beds, mattress replacement
systems, overlays and devices to help you effectively prevent and treat
the complications due to immobility. These complications include skin
breakdown, acute and chronic wounds, pulmonary distress (pneumonia), and
circulatory problems (Deep Vein Thrombosis). In addition, KCI's Continuum
also addresses your special therapeutic and risk management concerns of
caring for the bariatric or obese patient.
KCI Therapies have been clinically proven and/or financially justified
in, collectively, more than 160 articles published in peer-reviewed clinical
journals. Through research-based protocols and our clinically trained
support team, KCI helps ensure that the Right Patient receives the Right
Therapy for the Right Length of Time.
The Result? Improving your patient's clinical outcome,
such as healing an open wound or resolving a pulmonary complication like
pneumonia, while decreasing the total cost of care.
V.A.C.® Therapy
An Advanced System for Wound Healing
V.A.C.® (Vacuum Assisted Closure™) Therapy is a unique system
that promotes wound healing. Doctors can prescribe negative pressure wound
therapy (NPWT) for many chronic and traumatic wound patients - in the
hospital, extended care facility, and in the home.
V.A.C.® Therapy Illustration
V.A.C.® Therapy Helps:
- Promote granulation tissue formation through the promotion
of wound healing.1
- Uniformly draw wounds closed by applying controlled,
localized negative
pressure.
- Remove interstitial fluid allowing tissue decompression.
- Remove infectious materials.
- Provide a closed, moist wound healing environment.
1 Argenta, L.C., Morykwas, M.J. 'Vacuum-assisted closure:
A new method for wound control and treatment: Clinical experience'. Annals
of Plastic Surgery, 1997; 38(6): 563-77.
V.A.C.® Therapy
An Advanced System for Wound Healing
| Simple and efficient dressing application
in 3 quick steps. |
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| 1. Cut the V.A.C.® foam to fit the
size and shape of the wound, including tunnels and undermined areas. |
2. Trim the drape to cover the foam,
plus 3-5cm border of intact skin. |
3. Make a small hole in the drape and
apply the T.R.A.C. pad. |
4. Final dressing in place with therapy
ON. |
| Application of V.A.C.®
ATS in lower leg trauma |
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| 26-year-old male with open fracture of
the lower leg. Loss of all subcutaneous tissue and muscle necrosis. |
Aplying X-Large V.A.C.® ATS Black
Foam Dressing. |
Granulation tissue formation at 3 weeks. |
Defect covered with free flap and meshed
graft on day 29. |
| Photos courtesey of University Clinic
for Surgery Graz/University Clinic for Accident Surgery in Austria. |
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