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Misconcepts in the usage of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)

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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

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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

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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

Misconcepts in the Usage of Wound Matrices with AntiMicrobials

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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)

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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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