Mobile metadata assisted community database of chronic wound images
Publication date: September 2014 Source:Wound Medicine, Volume 6 Author(s): Chinmay Chakraborty , Bharat Gupta , Soumya K. Ghosh The clinical diagnosis is increasingly getting dependent on chronic wound images for screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, and routine check-ups. This work aims proposing a methodology for development of a chronic wound image database which may facilitate treatment of wounds with the help of store-and-forward Telemedicine approach for accessing the status of chronic wounds. This may further help a patient to acquire timely advice of his/her medical problem. Our major objective is to de...
Source: Wound Medicine - December 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Evaluation of angiogenesis in diabetic lower limb wound healing using a natural medicine: A quantitative approach
Publication date: September 2014 Source:Wound Medicine, Volume 6 Author(s): Ananya Barui , Provas Banerjee , Amrita Chaudhary , Sailesh Conjeti , Bikash Mondal , Susmita Dey , Jyotirmoy Chatterjee Increasing incidents of diabetes (mellitus) induced non-healing lower extremity wounds and disease associated amputations have raised significant concerns related to quality of life of afflicted patients. High glucose level in diabetic wounds inhibits the transactivation of angiogenesis related molecules resulting delayed healing progression. Present study investigates the impact of a natural medicine like honey in ang...
Source: Wound Medicine - December 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Differences in fluid distribution during negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in a large-pored PU-foam dressing, drainage film, and a specialized NPWT dressing system
Conclusion The results demonstrate that using an appropriate filler/dressing can facilitate effective wound fluid transport and drainage of interstitial fluid by producing heterogeneous pressures at the wound bed. (Source: Wound Medicine)
Source: Wound Medicine - December 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
In vitro model to proof the efficacy of 2 foil drainage systems for abdominal negative pressure therapy
Publication date: September 2014 Source:Wound Medicine, Volume 6 Author(s): Markus Puchinger , David Bergenz , Thomas Auer The negative pressure therapy (NPT) is used as a method of treatment of open abdomen based on high fluid retention in the abdominal cavity based on infection and/or abdominal hypertension. Thereby, different foil systems are used to remove the fluid of the abdomen. Two foils, system 1 (Suprasorb® CNP) and system 2 (AB-Thera®), two of the commercial abdominal negative pressure systems, were compared in an in vitro model with their abdominal fluid permeability. We compared both foils with respec...
Source: Wound Medicine - December 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Outcome of negative pressure wound therapy with different devices
Publication date: September 2014 Source:Wound Medicine, Volume 6 Author(s): Lenka Veverková , Jiří Jarkovský , Jan Žák , Michal Reška , Jan Konečný , Petr Vlček , Ivan Čapov Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is an evidence-based therapy for the treatment of chronic and acute wounds. The application of specific dressing kits with the NPWT unit enables physiological processes in the wound that support healing especially by promoting wound bed preparation and managing high levels of exudate. The aim of NPWT is to close the wound faster by reducing complications like sepsis, wound recurrence, which r...
Source: Wound Medicine - December 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
A randomised trial to compare the performance of Oxyzyme® and Iodozyme® with standard care in the treatment of patients with venous and mixed venous/arterial ulceration
This study was to evaluate the potential benefits of two products (Oxyzyme® and Iodozyme®) into a leg ulcer service in South Staffordshire, UK. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) was used to evaluate time to ulcer healing, quality of life, pain and cost effectiveness. 100 patients were randomised to receive either Oxyzyme/Iodozyme (active group) or standard care (control group) with venous or mixed arterio-venous ulcers. Patients were evaluated weekly up to 12 weeks, with further follow up at 24 weeks. Whilst there was a small benefit in terms of healing over follow up using the Cox Proportional Hazards Model, this did ...
Source: Wound Medicine - December 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane allografts in patients with chronic diabetic foot ulcers: A long-term follow-up study
Publication date: February 2014 Source:Wound Medicine, Volume 4 Author(s): Charles M. Zelen , Thomas E. Serena , Donald E. Fetterolf Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are notoriously slow to heal and even in cases where primary healing is achieved ulcers frequently recur. An optimal treatment for DFU would be one that supports both rapid and long-term healing. Our purpose is to evaluate recurrence rates of DFU healed with use of dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane (dHACM). Twenty-two patients with chronic DFU that healed with the use of dHACM were eligible for inclusion. All eligible patients had completed a single-ce...
Source: Wound Medicine - November 6, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Antimicrobial efficacy of modern wound dressings: Oligodynamic bactericidal versus hydrophobic adsorption effect
Publication date: June 2014 Source:Wound Medicine, Volume 5 Author(s): Horst Braunwarth , Florian H.H. Brill Locally infected wounds and wounds colonised with multidrug-resistant bacteria are commonly treated with local antimicrobial agents. Recently, wound dressings have been introduced into clinical practice that reduces bacteria by adsorbing bacteria on the dressing surface by a hydrophobic effect. Our aim was to investigate, whether this hydrophobic effect is only present in dressings coated with dialkyl carbamoyl chloride (DACC) or also in other modern wound dressings. To determine the hydrophobicity of the dres...
Source: Wound Medicine - November 6, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Electrospun soy protein scaffolds as wound dressings: Enhanced reepithelialization in a porcine model of wound healing
In this study we describe the use of an electrospun soy protein-based tissue scaffold (SPS) as a bioactive wound dressing in a pig model of full thickness excisional wound healing. The time course of wound healing and the quality of the healing tissue were evaluated using histology (H&E and Masson's trichrome staining). While the overall rate of wound closure was similar in the SPS-treated vs. untreated control wounds covered with Tegaderm®, there were significant qualitative differences between the two groups. Two weeks after a single application of SPS at the time of wounding, the SPS treated wounds showed robus...
Source: Wound Medicine - November 6, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
