An Arizona medical device manufacturer, Silverleaf Medical Products, applied to the FDA this week to expand the use of its electronic antimicrobial wound dressing.
An odd way of kicking the tires, perhaps unlike that of any of the seven previous potential buyers who visited the privately held Plastron Industries, the maker of "bobbins," thermoplastic parts for wound electronic components, such as coils.
An odd way of kicking the tires, perhaps unlike that of any of the seven previous potential buyers who visited privately held Plastron Industries, the maker of "bobbins," thermoplastic parts for wound electronic components such as coils.
Wounded, wounded, wounded!
The first human clinical study to use Rogers's electronic-skin device, to evaluate wound healing, was recently completed.
It was the computer that informed soldiers, who were equipped with radio headgear and electronic guns, when they had been killed or wounded.
We incorporated several design points to overcome this, including electronic randomisation (including a minimisation procedure), group concealment, blinding of wound assessors and patients, and a robust quality assured follow-up protocol including training in wound assessment.
Out of 247 NF patients' charts reviewed, either debrided tissue, blood, aspirated fluid or wound swab culture results (in the form of hard copy or electronic laboratory reports) were available for 219.
And each patient's medical records, often with narrative details of wounds and a thorough chronicle of treatments, are available in electronic form, but only to those involved in each person's care.
