Trends and Innovation in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy: A Review of Burn Wound Management

: Burns result in irretrievable cell damage, which can occur upon exposure to hot surfaces, liquids, gases, ultraviolet or ionizing radiation, and through friction. Standard of care in burn management involves protecting the patient, limiting burn progression, and achieving wound closure. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and NPWT with instillation and dwell time (NPWTi-d) are two wound management options that have been shown to improve outcomes for burn patients in recent years. This work provides a general review of NPWT and NPWTi-d use in burn wound management. A literature search was performed using PubMed and Embase for peer-reviewed publications and conference abstracts written in English and reporting on burn management using NPWT and/or NPWTi-d from a single manufacturer between 2000 and 2021. All burn types were included.