Posted by ketyung
on Mar/10/2009
at 5:19 am
Smith & Nephew has released RENASYS GO, a portable NPWT (Negative pressure wound therapy) device which is best used people who’re always on the run. The device comes in a small form factor, like an egg-shaped MP3 player which can be worn around the neck.
Of course, the RENASYS GO does not playback your tunes, it only sucks at your gross wound. It should be a pretty handy device for some diabetic sufferers who need to be on the run for some unknown reasons. So this portable device is best used to suck at those diabetic ulcers. It may be handy for athletes or martial art trainees who might always injure themselves during practice, making them carrying certain wounds on their body. More on the press release below:
The Renasys Go is intuitive, lightweight, portable and quiet, and can be used with the RENASYS-F foam and RENASYS-G gauze wound interfaces, the broadest selection of interfaces available from a single supplier. This enables clinicians to tailor NPWT to meet their patients’ unique needs and the specific requirements of their wounds, with clear improvements in patient comfort, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. Southern Ontario-based Nursing Practice Solutions Inc. conducted a study in Canada comparing average total costs required to treat patients with conventional dressings to the same costs required to treat patients with gauze- and foam-based NPWT, in cases for which NPWT was appropriate. The study found that the cost-per-patient treated with NPWT was 55% less than the cost-per-patient treated with conventional dressings, and that wounds treated with NPWT healed more quickly than wounds treated with conventional dressings. Among patients treated with NPWT, there was no difference in healing times between wounds dressed with foam and those dressed with gauze.
Some of the features include :-
- Discrete carrying case
- Weighs less than 3 pounds
- Frosted 300cc canister minimizes the visibility of exudate
- Multiple alarms and patient lock-out feature
- Extended, 20-hour battery life
- User-friendly digital settings
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