Development of vacuum wound closure system

• Main Author: Rivan, Rivaldy.
• Other Authors: Alastair Campbell Ritchie
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Bio-mechatronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/17116
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) is a type of wound treatment procedure that utilizes negative pressure in order to enhance the healing ability of the exposed wound bed. It has been proved that NPWT improves the granulation tissue formation on the wound bed exposed to negative pressure. This r...