Tropical pressure wound therapy

Abstract

• Healing a wound, a break in skin which is usually caused by cuts or scraps, is a response of the injury that sets into motion a sequence of events.1-3 Various types of treatment methods have been used to increase the speed of this process. One of the new methods used recently to improve the speed of wound healing is Tropical Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (TNPWT). Although pressure decreases the speed of wound healing in some patients such as spinal cord injury individuals, and those who need to be in bed for a long time,4,5, it can also be used to facilitate the wound healing process, especially in chronic wounds.2,6-9 This method is based on the idea of turning the open wound into a close one and remove the excess fluid from the wound (Figure 1). The new method has been used as a non-pharmacological treatment for chronic and acute wounds such as pressure ulcers, diabetic, abdominal and traumatic wounds 2 .