JACQUI FLETCHER OBE Clinical Editor, Wounds UK

Author: Joyce Black

Joyce Black is Professor, College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, US

This meeting report is based on the Mölnlycke-sponsored workshop held at the sixth World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) Congress on March 1–5, 2022, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The workshop, titled ‘Surgical incision care — negative pressure wound therapy and advanced dressings: what to use and when’, included presentations from Kylie Sandy Hodgetts, Rhidian Morgan-Jones and Amit Gefen. The topics of surgical dressings, risk assessment and requirements of closed-incision negative pressure wound therapy (ciNPWT) were all explored.

Authors:

Rhidian Morgan-Jones (Chair), Amit Gefen and Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts

Rhidian Morgan-Jones (Chair) is Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cardiff Knee Clinic, University Hospital Llandough, Cardiff, UK; Amit Gefen is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Herbert J. Berman Chair in Vascular Bioengineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts is Associate Professor, Centre of Molecular Medicine & Innovative Therapeutics, Murdoch University; Senior Research Fellow, Director Skin Integrity Research Institute, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

Abstract: Congenital dermal sinuses are a distinctive form of occult dysraphism where patients present with neurological compression, tethering, or meningitis. This is a case study of a child presenting with spina bifida with foot deformity and a chronic non-healing ulcer after excision of dermal sinus, and subsequent tethered cord due to arachnoiditis. He developed osteomyelitis and postoperatively, a non-healing ulcer, in an insensate foot. The patient was successfully managed, and complete wound healing was achieved within three months. A multidisciplinary approach to monitor, prevent and treat complications that may impact functionality, quality of life and survival of young patients with congenital dermal sinuses is needed.

Key words: ■ Congenital dermal sinus ■ Foot deformity ■ Insensate foot ■ Non-healing ulcer

Sunil V. Kari, Dr, MS, General Surgery, Sou. Mandakini Memorial Clinic, A unit of Mandakini Medi Engg Health Pvt Ltd, Bhagya plaza, NCM, Hubballi, India;

Vilasavati SS. Kanthi, Dr. MBBS, DCH, Sou. Mandakini Memorial Clinic, A unit of Mandakini Medi Engg Health Pvt Ltd, Bhagya plaza, NCM, Hubballi, India.