Led by Ashwinraj Karthikeyan, a fourth-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the squad won first place and earned the People’s Choice award at the ACC InVenture Prize competition on Friday night at the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Going up against teams from every ACC school except Clemson University, Karthikeyan pitched a wound site dressing called Phoenix-Aid, which he designed to help diabetic foot ulcer patients.
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I first learned about the value of maggots and their use in the care of diabetic wounds at a conference. A primary care physician from Appalachia told me how a patient arrived at the primary care physician’s office with her foot wrapped in gauze. When the nursing staff removed the gauze, they noted the wound was teaming with maggots!
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Cryopreserved membrane from human placentas helped close a hard-to-heal pressure wound in a series of case studies reported in the March issue of Wounds.
Though the benefits of using human amniotic tissue are well documented, the doctors wanted to explore the benefits of using cryopreserved, or frozen, tissue on three types of wounds under-represented in previous studies. They focused on treatment of an arterial ulcer, a pressure ulcer, and a recurring immune-related pyoderma gangrenosum ulcer.
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A new organization called NextFlex has teamed up with GE Global Research and is looking to scale up hybrid, flexible electronics called sweat patches that measure fatigue in pilots, elite athletes and other potential medical users — all by analyzing their sweat.
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Group of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania are developing new generation sponge-like wound dressings with hyaluronic acid. Antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory wound dressings stimulate tissue regeneration and can be especially efficient in treating deep wounds that are difficult to heal.
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A group of engineers-biomedical created instant glue MeTro, which after irradiation with ultraviolet light tightens the wound in seconds, reports the Chronicle.info with reference to expres.ua. “Engineers from both biomedical doctors the University of Sydney (Australia) in collaboration with colleagues from the US have created new elastic instantaneous adhesive that allows you to treat wounds, even in those body tissues that is constantly shrinking or surrounded by fluids.
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Lake Regional Wound Healing Center has been named a Center of Distinction by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Wound Healing Center achieved outstanding patient outcomes for the past 12 months, including patient satisfaction of 92 percent, wound healing rate of 97 percent and a median of 30 days to heal.
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The Villages Regional Hospital physicians, leaders, and clinicians gathered recently to celebrate the Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Center of Excellence award, which was given to the hospital’s Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center for the fourth consecutive year. The center has achieved patient satisfaction rates higher than 92 percent and a healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 30 median days to heal.
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Grand Lake Wound Care Center at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital has been given a national award for continued excellence in wound healing. For the fifth consecutive year, the center has received the Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Center of Excellence award.
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April is National Foot Health Awareness Month and a time when the experts at Rome Memorial Hospital’s Regional Center for Wound Care suggest people take a moment to stand up for their feet. Right now, 6.7 million Americans are living with a chronic wound, and more than two million of those are suffering from a diabetic foot ulcer.
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