UNLABELLED Introduction. This small pilot study introduces initial clinical experience with a system combining negative pressure wound therapy and negative pressure wound therapy with instillation (NPWT/NPWTi, V.A.C. ULTA™ Negative Pressure Wound Therapy, KCI USA, Inc, San Antonio, TX). MATERIALS AND METHODS The NPWT system with instillation delivers controlled volumetric fluid instilla...

Despite recent progress in developing animatable full-body avatars, realistic modeling of clothing - one the core aspects human self-expression remains an open challenge. State-of-the-art physical simulation methods can generate realistically behaving geometry at interactive rates. Modeling photorealistic appearance, however, usually requires physically-based rendering which is too expensive fo...

An audit of resource use was undertaken in 35 patients treated by two ambulatory wound care providers in Germany (one medical practice and one outpatient wound clinic). A new wound dressingi was introduced with appropriate education and training in its use, and the frequency of dressing change and types of dressings used were recorded before and after adopting the new approach. Clinicians’ view...

background split- thickness skin graft is one of the most common operations in plastic surgery. it is always painful and patient discomfort from donor site often is more significant than recipient site. there is not still a standard method for treatment of the donor site. the purpose of this study was to determine the best method of dressing the donor site among three different methods with res...