AAOS: Occlusive, antimicrobial dressing appears to promote uneventful TJA wound healing

Highly absorbent sterile hydrocolloid wound dressing in total knee & hip arthroplasty

Int Orthop. 2015 Jul;39(7):1315-9.

Antimicrobial dressing reduces pin tract infection in external fixation

Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2012 Feb;470(2):610-5. Epub 2011 Aug 13

Bulky dressing, but not thin adhesive dressing, hinders the effect of cryotherapy on knees

Knee. 2005 Jan;12(1):21-3

No differences were found between postoperative dressings following carpal tunnel release

J Hand Surg Am. 2012 Jan;37(1):3-8. Epub 2011 Nov 30

Novel Calcium Alginate Dressing System in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Front Surg. 2022 01-May;():. 10.3389/fsurg.2022.800850

Occlusive dressings decrease rate of wound complications following TKA/THA

Am J Orthop (Belle Mead NJ). 2015 Sep;44(9):415-20.

COA/ICORS2019: Fewer dressing changes but increase in blister formation with iNPWT in arthroplasty

Similar Outcomes With Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Dressing For Open Tibial Fractures

Bone Joint J. 2020 01-Jul;():. 10.1302/0301-620X.102B7.BJJ-2019-1462.R1

OTA 2016: Preliminary results of NPWT following operative treatment of calcaneus fractures

No difference in deep infection rate with iNPWT and standard wound dressing in low fracture surgery

JAMA. 2020 ;():. 10.1001/jama.2020.0059

OTA 2014: Negative-pressure wound therapy not favourable to gauze dressing for ORIF

AAOS2018: ciNPWT vs occlusive dressing for reducing wound complications in revision THA and TKA

Perforated cloth tape to lower prevalence of tape blisters after hip surgery

J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2003 Oct;85-A(10):1884-7

Mepilex Wound Dressing Provides Greater Wound Management and Satisfaction vs Aquacel Wound Dressing

Int J Orthop Trauma Nurs. 2020 Aug-01;():. 10.1016/j.ijotn.2020.100772

OTA 2019: Open fractures treated with vac dressing at higher risk of infection and lower HRQoL

No reduction in wrist pin-site complications with Biopatch intervention or pin-cleansing

J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2006 Feb;88(2):349-54

Benefit of negative pressure wound therapy found in management of TKA and THA patients

Bone Joint Res. 2016 Aug;5(8):328-37

Cost of negative pressure wound therapy in TKA not offset by benefit in QoL, satisfaction

J Arthroplasty. 2016 Nov;31(11):2487-2494

AAOS2019: iNPWT vs. standard care in lower extremity total joint arthroplasties