More than six million people in the U.S. suffer from persistent wounds - open sores that never seem to heal or, once apparently healed, return with a vengeance. Employing a special solution developed at Prof. Freeman's TAU laboratory, Dermastream offers a new approach to chronic wound care, a specialty known as "continuous streaming therapy." ……
"Our basic idea is simple," says Prof. Freeman. "We treat the wound by streaming a solution in a continuous manner. Traditional methods require wound scraping to remove necrotic tissue. That is expensive, painful and extremely uncomfortable to the patient. And while active ingredients applied with bandages on a wound may work for a couple of hours, after that the wound fights back. The bacteria build up again, creating a tedious and long battle……Technorati Tags: pressure sores,LTC
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