Cold atmospheric plasmas (CAPs) are investigated for several medical applications; major research effort is devoted to the promotion of wound healing in of chronic wounds. These wounds, typically associated with diabetes, are a major health concern due to their high occurrence in the population, long healing time, and associated high costs. Cell culture studies and clinical trials show promising results towards wound reduction or closure using relatively short plasma treatment times between 45 s and 2 min.
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Healogics®, the wound healing experts, today announced the launch of their newest program: Healogics Specialty Physicians Care Continuum (HSP Care Continuum). The Program is designed to support the patient experience by improving continuity of care, cost-effectiveness, patient outcomes, value and satisfaction for people with chronic wounds who are transitioning from an inpatient to an outpatient setting.
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Hard to heal wounds come in many different sizes, shapes, locations, and have many definitions of hard to heal based on underlying etiology of the wound, in practice it’s any wound that has not healed within a timely fashion, which is often due to lack of coordinated care with many patients receiving multiple courses of antibiotics and antimicrobial therapy.
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A randomised, controlled multicentre clinical trial was conducted at 14 wound care centres in the United States to confirm the efficacy of dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane allograft (dHACM) for the treatment of chronic lower extremity ulcers in persons with diabetes. Patients with a lower extremity ulcer of at least 4 weeks duration were entered into a 2‐week study run‐in phase and treated with alginate wound dressings and appropriate offloading.
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Natalie Waetzig underwent surgery a year and a half ago to remove a cancerous tumor on her leg. Thirty radiation treatments later, she beat cancer – only for her wound to reopen, and bring on a new battle. “It just wasn’t healing,” Natalie said. “It was weeping. I had pain in the leg most of the time, and then swelling – terrible swelling, so it was hard for me to work and I kept getting different infections.”
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Avita Medical (ASX: AVH, OTCQX: AVMXY) today announced that results from two U.S. pivotal clinical trials demonstrating the effectiveness and clinical benefits of the RECELL® Autologous Cell Harvesting Device were presented in the plenary session at the U.S. Defense Department Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) in Kissimmee, Florida. The results were presented by James H. Holmes, IV, MD, FACS Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem North Carolina.
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Researchers at Massachusetts’ Tufts University have made a prototype smart bandage that can help heal wounds and deliver drugs directly into the site of the injury only when they’re needed.
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Formation of new blood vessels, a process also known as angiogenesis, is one of the major clinical challenges in wound healing and tissue implants. To address this issue, researchers from Texas A&M University have developed a clay-based platform to deliver therapeutic proteins to the body to assist with the formation of blood vessels.
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Impaired wound healing and ulceration caused by diabetes mellitus, is a significant healthcare burden, markedly impairs quality of life for patients, and is the major cause of amputation worldwide. Current experimental approaches used to investigate the complex wound healing process often involve cultures of fibroblasts and/or keratinocytes in vitro, which can be limited in terms of complexity and capacity, or utilisation of rodent models in which the mechanisms of wound repair differ substantively from that in humans.
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A large number of people around the world suffer from chronic skin wounds each year. Often, chronic wounds such as skin ulcers are seen in older people suffering from circulation disorders and diabetic patients whose skin tissue has a poor capacity of regeneration. Currently, many treatment approaches focus primarily on managing the wounds.
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