Advances in Wound Care

Military Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Increasingly Essential Since Iraq, Afghanistan Wars

Since 2004, beginning in the battlefield medicine setting, negative-pressure therapy has been regularly used in the treatment of acute injuries and nonhealing wounds.

Nonhealing Wounds From Battlefield Injuries, Chronic Conditions, Surgery Create Medical Challenges

by U.S. Medicine

During the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than half of all injuries involved the extremities.

Advances in Wound Care

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