[Vacuum dressing technique to temporary cover of laparostomy].

Background: The advances in patient care with trauma or severe intra-abdominal infections, brought important gains in survival with the use of peritoneostomies. But the management of patients brought a difficult problem: the primary closure without tension of the abdominal cavity.

Aim: To present a proposal for temporary coverage of peritoneostomies in patients undergoing damage control laparotomy or decompressive laparotomy for abdominal compartment syndrome.