Study to Evaluate the PICO 14 Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System in the Management of Acute and Chronic Wounds

Inclusion Criteria

• •The subject must provide written informed consent.
• •Subjects eighteen (18) years of age or older.
• •Willing and able to make all required study visits.
• •Able to follow instructions.
• •Subject is suitable to participate in the study in the opinion of the Investigator.
• •Closed Incisions ONLY:
• •Subject has a suitable, closed surgical incision which the clinician considers is suitable for PICO therapy, where it is expected that the therapy will be applied for up to 14 days.
• •Any closed surgical incision in a patient in which the patient is deemed high risk of developing surgical site infection (SSI) in the opinion of the investigator.
• •Chronic wounds ONLY:
• •Patients with any chronic wound\* which the treating clinician deems is suitable for management with single-use disposable NPWT where it is expected that the therapy will applied for up to 28 days.
• •* \*Chronic wound in this study is defined as any wound of less than three months duration that is not healing after 4 weeks of standard care and having addressed the underlying cause.
• •Dehisced surgical wounds ONLY:
• •Patients with dehisced wounds in which the clinician believes is suitable for PICO therapy where therapy is expected to be applied for up to 28 days.
• •* \*Wound dehiscence is a surgical complication in which two sides of a surgical incision separate and rupture along the incision, dehiscence typically is diagnosed after 2-3 days postsurgery and up to a month with more complicated surgeries