Vacuum therapy is an effective way to treat complex open wounds. Today, most of the equipment is very expensive to provide widespread use of this therapy and, most of them, are designed to in-patient use. Also, there are difficulties to obtain the needed materials in the same package for specific use of treating open wounds, which causes delay in the treatment. We designed a kit that is cost-effective and ready-to-use to be used with Jackson-Pratt or Portovac style suction drains that allows a cheap, out-patient alternative for use in open-wound situations. We devise that this system could be used in emergency situations where there is a hostile environment such as natural catastrophes, war and emergency situations, as well as to regular in and out-patient wound care.
