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I agree. We had a patient with a ***HUGE*** abdominal wound. It took up at least half his abdomen. You could see the size of the wound very well because of the black sponge for the wound vac. Every week the black sponge filling the wound would get smaller and smaller.

It was truly amazing. And the stuff that was sucked out of that wound... it would have taken MANY dressing changes/reinforcements every day without that vac.

It definitely heals wounds fast. I use them daily in home health, and just finished an inservice. They are coming out with a new updated version, which will allow the company to see a virtual wound, as you treat it. If used correctly, it can work wonders, but please call KCI if you want education, they are great! Doctors need inservices!

We use these at our hospital and they work great. We had a woman with bilateral thigh wounds the size of a dinner plate. a month later they were down to the size of a fist.

Phenominal results

I have used the Vac for many years on hundreds of diff wounds including pressure ulcers, it has work about 98% of the time which is pretty good odds

We used this product in our facility. Very good results were aquired. I saw wounds from pressure sores all the way to infected incisional sites go from hugh gaping wounds to healed tissue. It is a bit tricky to do the dressing changes and if the pt is mobile you need to reinforce it alot but all in all great product that healed many wounds that were life threatening.

If used correctly the Wound Vac is one of the best interventions to use on wounds.

Miracle wound healer in my opinion

These are great!

We see these a lot where I work & they do amazing things! I have never seen wounds heal so quickly & am amazed at the process the patients make when these are used. Can be a bit tricky to get the dressings intact at first but when it's done properly they do a wonderful job.

Good product.

Wound Vac's have revalutionized wound care!! Their great!

THIS PRODUCT IS SO FANTASTIC. IT'S INITIALLY APPLIED IN SURGERY AND IT STAYS ON UNTIL THE DESIRED LEVEL OF WOUND HEALING IS ACHIEVED. A WOUND OSTOMY CONTINENCE NURSE CHANGES THE DRESSING AT THE BEDSIDE WHEN IT'S APPROPRIATE. THESE HAVE MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN THE HEALING OF WOUNDS.

I am a patient and I have had a KCI wound vac on since December 10th. The hole in my back at the time the machine was placed was 6 x 6 inches with some tunneling. It is now March 25th and there is no tunneling and the hole is 3.5 x 3.5. Yes, the machine did make the hole smaller, but it has also dried it out, caused a foul odor and given me a chronic shoulder pain from carrying it around. I can't tell you how many times I have snagged the excess of tubing on something because it all does not fit very well in the little pocket provided for it. If I do manage to get it all in there some where it will usually get pinched and I will get low pressure alarms. I have had so many problems with this vac. I get alarms constant'y for low pressure or for the canister being full. I will get a canister full alarm the day after I put on a new canister. There will be almost nothing in it and it will tell me it is full. Right now, I can not get it to keep its pressure. It is as noisy as a motorcycle going by my house except for the machine is right next to me.
I can not sleep well because of the tubing. I can not bathe well because of the tape. I can not get around very well because of the machine. Yes the machine is "lightweight" and only weighs about 3 or 4 pounds after a couple days of drainage, but 3 or 4 pounds of weight on your shoulder everyday and every time you stand up to walk around causes some serious shoulder pain. I really, truly believe that my doctor put me on this machine so that he would not have to deal with me as often. Afterall, he did tell me that he did not know what to do with me because he had never seen anything like me before. This is the difficult healing wound specialist at the University of Michigan Hospitals.
I can not see where the woumd vac has done any good for me than the wet to dry dressings that were being done before.
I would not reccommend this to anyone that is not going to be laid up in a hospital bed while wearing the machine. It is not where near the idea of convienent that KCI, or doctors and nurses make it out to be. They may think it is, but if they had to deal with one for 3 1/2 months, I doubt they would see the convience factor in it anymore.

I have had a chance to assist with ongoing care with a wound vac and the rate of regeneration and healing was fanominal!!!!!!!

It is one of the fastest ways to heal wounds. I was really surprised. You can teach the family how to use t and do th dressing changes. The people at KCI are great to work ... very patient and understanding.

A excellent tool that certainly adds to healing many wounds. We took these on in the military and have gained some great results. Overall many more happy and healthy patients in the end.

We used the Wound Vac extensively in the OR at the Level I trauma center where I was a circulator. We received many multiple traumas that required multiple surgical procedures. For those patients who were going to be opened again it made no sense to close all layers repeatedly. Applying the various size sponges and closing them with the "Saran Wrap" the constant drainage by vacuum helped prevent what would have been abscesses before the Wound Vac. The results were impressive 98% of the time.

wound vacs do wonders for the right conditions i agree this is one of the best products out there but they are expensive