title: [Negative pressure therapy. A step forward in the burn units].
abstract: This work has been the winner of the Award of 2012 Negative Pressure Therapy in its fourth edition. This award is organized by Revista ROL de Enfermería and has the endorsement of the Spanish Association of Vascular Nursing (AEEV) and the collaboration of KCI Clínic Spain. The objective of this work is to show a clinical case in which the therapy pressure negative topical (PTN), known by the initials of its name in English (Vacuum Assisted Closure), as the system VAC has helped simplify the cutaneous coverage of a patient who has a very deep and extensive burns in the back, avoiding the use of complex reconstructive media.
authors: Unidad de Grandes Quemados del Hospital Río Hortega de Valladolid.
authors: Raquel
authors: R
authors: Varga del Hoyo
authors: M Carmen
authors: MC
authors: Peñas Raigoso
mesh_terms: D002053:Burn Units; D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D054843:Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy