The Food & Drug Administration is warning about serious complications that could arise from the use of negative-pressure wound therapy and working to develop regulatory science with Georgetown University.
The FDA has received notice that six people have died and 97 have been injured since the watchdog agency issued a public health notice on NWPT after reports of deaths and injuries in Nov. 2009. The FDA has received reports of 12 deaths and 174 injuries altogether since 2007, according to a press release.