Abstract:IntroductionNegative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in acute burn care may decrease the time to re-epithelialisation by more than 20%. Despite this, the perceived burden of use; including therapeutic, physical and financial, have limited the use of NPWT in acute burn care. This might be minimised by using the small, ultraportable, single-use NPWT device PICO as opposed to larger devices, which to date has never been studied in acute burn care. This research will; therefore, primarily assess the feasibility, acc… Show more
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