Outcomes with use of Novel Silicone-Acrylic Hybrid Drape During Negative Pressure Wound Therapy With Fluid Instillation: Initial Clinical Experience

In this video, the presenter reports the outcomes of 3 cases in which a silicone-acrylic hybrid drape was used during negative pressure wound therapy with instillation and dwell time. Data from this poster were presented at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care Fall in Las Vegas, Nevada (October 29-31, 2021).

For more information, see Outcomes with use of Novel Silicone-Acrylic Hybrid Drape During Negative Pressure Wound Therapy here.

Transcript

Hello, my name's Luis Fernandez. I'm a trauma critical care surgeon and professor of surgery at University of Texas in Tyler, Texas. We presented at poster at SAWC which deals with our initial experience using a novel synthetic hybrid drape which has certain capabilities.

It's easy to apply. It can be removed and then reapplied if, for whatever reason, we can't apply it very well. It has certain advantages over the old polyvinyl-type dressings, so that it's more gentle to the skin, and particularly the epidermis.

In patients who have very friable skin, such as the very young and the very old, it's a much more gentle approach to apply a dressing when using negative pressure therapy. In this instance, we also looked at its performance using negative pressure therapy with installation to see how well this novel drape would hold a seal.

We looked at eight patients. There were a variety of different courses of the patients. Some of them were trauma patients, some of them were not, and different topographical areas in the extremities, in the torso, and so forth.

We found that, number 1, it did exactly as it was designed to do. It was easy to apply. It held its seal, and more importantly, the patients had minimal discomfort in its application and its removal. We feel that experience suggests that this type of novel drape has a significant improvement in patient satisfaction, and also in decreasing peridrape injury, superficial injury.

Particularly to the superficial aspect of the skin envelope, which is also an advantage from a clinical standpoint. I hope you have an opportunity to stop by and review our poster online, and I hope that you find it interesting. Thank you.