SWHSI-2 Papers!

New papers…

SWHSI-2 has reported…

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) is…

No better.
Not cost-effective.
Expensive.

No change in:
Pain
Time to healing
Infections
Adverse events

plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose

I enjoyed my time on the Trial Steering Committee - thank you for the opportunity.

Anyway, here are the papers so far.

Main Paper:
SWHSI-2 - Lancet Paper00143-6)

Cost-effectiveness paper:
SWHSI-2 - BJS Paper

Essentially NPWT does nothing better than normal care. Obviously in some circumstances can be helpful, but rarely.

Terrifyingly mean healing time of these wounds is 6 months!

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