DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING CHRONIC WOUNDS

摘要

An extracorporeal device for the treatment of a body wound includes a treatment head adapated to be secured to a patient's body in an area of the wound. The treatment head includes a chamber with at least one pressure input to receive and apply to the wound a sequence of hyperbaric and hypobaric pressures, and an irrigating mechanism to receive an irrigating fluid and apply the irrigating fluid to the wound. The treatment head also includes a drainage output. A control system is arranged to apply the sequence of hyperbaric and hypobaric pressures to the at least one input of the treatment head, to regulate the application of the irrigating flud input to the irrigating mechanism and to control the drainage output to drain irrigating fluid and wound debris from the treatment head.