The pipeline for wound healing technologies includes lasers that kill bacteria and fluorescence imaging to aid in diagnostics.
FREMONT, CA: A skin wound is typically considered to be of little concern to the average person; however, a variety of disorders can cause or contribute to the severity of a wound that necessitates the use of specific technologies for proper healing.
Patients are predisposed to chronic wounds due to underlying factors ranging from malnutrition and stress to metabolic syndrome, necessitating intervention to accelerate a sluggish healing process.
In the United States, 3 percent of the population over the age of 65 has open wounds, and 2 percent of the entire population suffers from chronic wounds, according to a recent scholarly article that examined the magnitude of the problem.
Medicare cost forecasts for all wounds, including costs for infection treatment, range from $28.1 billion to $96.7 billion, with surgical wounds and diabetic ulcers being the most expensive to treat … read more