August 2024
Misconcepts in the usage of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) is a therapeutic technique commonly used to treat diabetic chronic ulcers. Following are the main objectives to achieve through NPWT: Exudate Control: When an injury occurs, leaving the skin exposed and unprotected, the cells secrete a fluid known as Exudate that gets filtered from the circulatory system. It is pale
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Misconcepts in Tissue Regenerative Scaffolds
There is a general perception in the wound healing products industry, that an intact tissue derived membrane can be used as a biocompatible collagen membrane. Unfortunately, this is a wrong concept. Please realize the fact, if the cells in any of the biologically intact membrane are washed off, it will not become non-immunogenic. The membrane
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Misconcepts in the treatment of Diabetic Ulcers
The main objective here is to understand the prevailing misconcepts in the usage of biological/bioengineered scaffolds like skin substitutes and collagen dressings in the treatment of chronic Diabetic ulcers. There are some collagen preparations that perform better than a dressing, but not properly recognized as a better product due to lack of scientific background and
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Misconcepts in the Usage of Wound Matrices with AntiMicrobials
Why doctors avoid antibiotics? Seeing a patient, doctors do not prefer to prescribe an AntiMicrobial normally. It is given as the last resort. The reasons are To avoid development of resistance It might cause other metabolic complications Some antimicrobials could be carcinogenic or even genotoxic Excretion of antimicrobials for long duration could cause kidney damage
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Medicare approved skin substitutes (Total = 94)
This post is to create an awareness of different categories of Medicare-approved skin-substitute products (approx. 94) in the market. Most of these products are derived from intact tissues of either Allograft (amnion related – 44%, skin – 22%) or Xenograft (intestine, skin, pericardium, urinary bladder, dura – 6%). All cryopreserved skin allografts do cost more,
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Ulcer Treatments Emphasizing Diabetic Ulcers
What are Skin Ulcers? A skin ulcer is an open sore normally assumed to be caused by poor blood flow (Ref 1). Actually, poor blood flow is not the only reason. In a diabetic patient, the reason behind the slow healing of ulcers is the presence of high level of blood glucose that modifies the
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Tissue Regenerative Medicine
Regenerative Medical Devices Regenerative medicine is rapidly growing with bio-engineered medical devices with or without cells and other factors for tissues and cell therapies to aid the body towards repair, remodeling, and regeneration of damaged or diseased cells, tissues and organs. Regenerative Medical Device Growth Expectations: The industry of Regenerative Medicine is projected for a
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Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)
What is Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)? NPWT is a therapeutic technique commonly used to treat chronic diabetic ulcers. The technique employs the use of a sealed dressing connected to a vacuum pump to remove excess exudate from the wound environment. Following are the main objectives to achieve through NPWT: 1.Exudate Control: When an injury
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November is the Month of Awareness
Our mission is to bring out certain hidden facts of the technical aspects of Diabetic Ulcer etiology. To nurture the curiosity of our energetic followers who intend to further enlighten themselves, HealthQuiz.org sheds more light on significant physiological causes of Diabetic Skin Ulcers. Of course, we enjoy bringing out many more of such ignored or unknown
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