Around 1 million people in Germany are suffering from a chronic wound. This leads to therapy costs of roughly 1 billion euros every year. A chronic wound is that is not closed after three months or that fails to show any tendency of healing after four weeks of treatment. In cases such as these the cold plasma jet kINPen® MED is used to achieve re-epithelisation.
Patient: 67 years, lateral malleolus, left, infection Cold plasma treatment: 1 treatment per week, total of 8 treatments Method: 4.5 l/min plasma 30-60 s/sqcm on ulcus/edge in addition to conservative therapy
Day 1
week 8, wound closure
Source: DE, Altenburg, hospital Altenburger Land GmbH, Angiology, Dr. med. Birgit Schwetlick
Patient: 66 years, pretibial, ulcus since 7 years, infection (staph aureus, enterococcus faecalis, strept. gallolyticus) Cold plasma treatment: 4 treatments per week, total of 8 treatments
Initial findings
week 2
wound closure (week 53 follow-up)
Quelle: Cold atmospheric pressure plasma for accelerated wound healing in diabetic foot: the prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled KPW-Trial By: Costea, T. -C.; Stratmann, B.; Nolte, C.; et al. Conference: 56th Annual Meeting of the European-Association-for-the-Study-of-Diabetes (EASD) DIABETOLOGIA Volume: 63 Issue: SUPPL 1 Special Issue: SI Supplement: 1 Pages: S412-S412 Meeting Abstract: 858 Published: SEP 2020
Patient: 83 years, club foot, polyneuropathy, fistulae since 3 months, bacteria (escherichia coli, A streptococci) Cold plasma treatment: Total of 4 weeks
Initial findings
Week 3 – healing of MT4
Week 5 – reduction of wound surface of MT1
Quelle: DE, Ostfildern, Medius Klinik Ostfildern-Ruit, Dr. med. Sylvia von Kiparski
Patient: 76 years, male, PNP, CVI, CHD, alcoholism, left calcaneus, wound size 2.34 cm² Cold plasma treatment: 27 treatments in 18.5 weeks Result: A surgical intervention was necessary after the first cold plasma treatment, the upper tissue layer had to be removed to enable wound healing; wound closure
