Novel atmospheric plasma enhanced chitosan nanofiber/gauze composite wound dressings

2013 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 916-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupesh Nawalakhe ◽  
Quan Shi ◽  
Narendiran Vitchuli ◽  
Jesse Noar ◽  
Jane M. Caldwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Plasma ◽  
Wound Dressings ◽  
Chitosan Nanofiber

scholarly journals Combining Biocompatible and Biodegradable Scaffolds and Cold Atmospheric Plasma for Chronic Wound Regeneration

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (17) ◽  
pp. 9199
Author(s):  
Steffen Emmert ◽  
Sven Pantermehl ◽  
Aenne Foth ◽  
Janine Waletzko-Hellwig ◽  
Georg Hellwig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Wounds ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure Plasma ◽  
Treatment Resistance ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Epidermal Differentiation ◽  
Atmospheric Plasma ◽  
Wound Dressings ◽  
Efficient Treatment ◽  
Compression Bandages

Skin regeneration is a quite complex process. Epidermal differentiation alone takes about 30 days and is highly regulated. Wounds, especially chronic wounds, affect 2% to 3% of the elderly population and comprise a heterogeneous group of diseases. The prevailing reasons to develop skin wounds include venous and/or arterial circulatory disorders, diabetes, or constant pressure to the skin (decubitus). The hallmarks of modern wound treatment include debridement of dead tissue, disinfection, wound dressings that keep the wound moist but still allow air exchange, and compression bandages. Despite all these efforts there is still a huge treatment resistance and wounds will not heal. This calls for new and more efficient treatment options in combination with novel biocompatible skin scaffolds. Cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAP) is such an innovative addition to the treatment armamentarium. In one CAP application, antimicrobial effects, wound acidification, enhanced microcirculations and cell stimulation can be achieved. It is evident that CAP treatment, in combination with novel bioengineered, biocompatible and biodegradable electrospun scaffolds, has the potential of fostering wound healing by promoting remodeling and epithelialization along such temporarily applied skin replacement scaffolds.

French Panel Outlines Utility of Wound Dressings

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
LEANNE SULLIVAN
Keyword(s):  
Wound Dressings

Actual procedures of diagnostics and treatments of crural venous ulcer in specialized German praxis and clinics

Phlebologie ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (02) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Altmeyer ◽  
M. Stücker ◽  
S. Reich-Schupke
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Polyurethane Foam ◽  
Surgical Therapy ◽  
Compression Therapy ◽  
German Society ◽  
Venous Ulcer ◽  
Ulcus Cruris ◽  
Wound Dressings

Summary Background: To evaluate the implementation of the guidelines of the German Society of Phlebology for venous crural ulcer a survey was conducted during the annual meeting of the German Society of Phlebology 2008 in Bochum. Methods: All 719 medical participants got an anonymized questionnaire asking for supply of crural ulcer in their institution. Results: The recurrent 66 questionnaires (9.2%) were filled by colleagues from practice or hospital, mostly surgeons, dermatologists, phlebologists and vascular surgeons. As basic diagnostics vein doppler (56.1%), duplex (75.8%) or measurement of brachial-ankleindex (83.3%) were performed. Compression therapy is used in all institutions. Mainly used wound dressings are polyurethane foam dressings, alginates, hydrocolloids and silver dressings. About 2/3 conduct surgical therapy of ulcers. Conclusion: Supply of ulcus cruris by the participants of the annual meeting of the DGP corresponds mainly, but not in all aspects to the guidelines. Further efforts for a spread of the guidelines are necessary.

Novel tissue engineering scaffolds as wound dressings loaded with Alkannins/Shikonins as active ingredients

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
AS Arampatzis ◽  
K Theodoridis ◽  
E Aggelidou ◽  
KN Kontogiannopoulos ◽  
I Tsivintzelis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Wound Dressings ◽  
Active Ingredients ◽  
Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

Isaac Bayley Balfour, Sphagnum moss, and the Great War (1914–1918)

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Ayres
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The United States ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Wound Dressings ◽  
Sphagnum Moss ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Sphagnum Bog ◽  
The Great War

Isaac Bayley Balfour was a systematist specializing in Sino-Himalayan plants. He enjoyed a long and exceptionally distinguished academic career yet he was knighted, in 1920, “for services in connection with the war”. Together with an Edinburgh surgeon, Charles Cathcart, he had discovered in 1914 something well known to German doctors; dried Sphagnum (bog moss) makes highly absorptive, antiseptic wound dressings. Balfour directed the expertise and resources of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (of which he was Keeper), towards the identification of the most useful Sphagnum species in Britain and the production of leaflets telling collectors where to find the moss in Scotland. By 1918 over one million such dressings were used by British hospitals each month. Cathcart's Edinburgh organisation, which received moss before making it into dressings, proved a working model soon adopted in Ireland, and later in both Canada and the United States.

Trace Elemental Analysis Technologies using Atmospheric Plasma Sources

2010 ◽  
Vol 130 (10) ◽  
pp. 955-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaori Shigeta ◽  
Yoichi Nagata ◽  
Takahiro Iwai ◽  
Hidekazu Miyahara ◽  
Akitoshi Okino
Keyword(s):  
Elemental Analysis ◽  
Atmospheric Plasma ◽  
Trace Elemental Analysis ◽  
Plasma Sources ◽  
Trace Elemental
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