New type of wound dressing shocks patients

  While Wound Source estimated that there are over 6,000 types of wound care dressings, the steep number doesn’t stop researchers from testing products for more advanced dressings. Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently developed a new low-cost wound dressing designed to accelerate wound healing. Here are the details on this innovative wound dressing: How does this wound dressing work? While electricity can be beneficial for skin healing, most electrotherapy products require bulky equipment and complex wiring. This new dressing leverages the power of electrical pulses for healing, but is in the form of a traditional bandage, making it a much simpler and convenient form of wound treatment. The dressing requires the patient to wear a band on their torso, which sends low-intensity electric pulses to the bandage covering the wound. The patient’s natural breathing movements activate the pulses, which mimic the way our bodies naturally generate internal electric fields. Additionally, the lower intensity of these bandages compared to current electrotherapy products mean the dressing is less likely to harm healthy tissues. “The new dressing reduced healing times to three days.” Where’s the proof? The researchers tested the new dressing on rodents and found that it reduced healing times to three days, which is significantly faster than the normal healing period of two weeks. The accelerated recovery rate even surprised the re...
Source: Advanced Tissue - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Wound care products wound dressings Source Type: news