Marco Filonzi
Smith & Nephew, Italy
Biography:
Marco Filonzi is currently working as National Sales Manager at Smith & Nephew, Italy
Abstract:
Background:
Surgical site infections are a relevant problem for healthcare providers, prolonging patient’s stay and increasing management costs. After WHO published the new GLOBAL GUIDELINES FOR THE PREVENTION OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION in 2016, the usage of Incisional Negative Pressure systems (iNPWT) became more popular, demonstrating their efficacy in different specialities. Nevertheless, the adoption in surgical protocols has been slowed down by hospital administrations, worried by the arising costs.
Content:
Since 2016 a body of qualitative clinical evidence has been developed to support the efficacy of sNPWT for the prevention of SSI, which led to the publication of some Medtech Innovation Briefings by NICE. That includes some interesting research focussed on economical and organizational sustainability of that practice.
This presentation will start from a brief review of clinical evidence available on clinical efficacy and will then illustrate a significant study, real world data based, that demonstrated the economical sustainability of an APPROPRIATE usage of sNPWT on high risk patients for the prevention of SSIs.