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Nos équipes de recherche et développement travaillent dans le monde entier et génèrent des synergies tirées de notre expertise et de disciplines techniques connexes. Nous sommes en contact à l'international avec des institutions spécialisées indépendantes, avec des leaders d'opinion et multiplicateurs de façon à pouvoir gérer parfaitement la gestion des coopérations et du savoir. Dans ce contexte, nous menons des recherches à grande échelle présentées continuellement lors de congrès sous forme de posters ou d'exposés réalisés par nos partenaires de coopération, mais aussi lors de colloques et d'ateliers. Ces travaux de recherche sont aussi publiés dans des revues scientifiques de renom. Nous mettons à disposition dans cette base de données des publications spécialisées basées sur des preuves et pour la plus grande partie évaluées par des experts indépendants :
Introduction:
Debridement is a basic necessity to induce the process of tissue repair especially in chronic wounds.
Methods:
In this prospective, blindly assessed pilot study we used a new debrider technology with specific monofilament fibres in a unique texture to evaluate its efficacy, safety and tolerability. In altogether 11 patients exhibiting all kinds of wound-associated debris (biofilms, slough, necrotic crusts, ‘hyperkeratotic’ plaques, see table 1) the debrider*, wetted with physiological solution, was wiped without specific force over the wound for about 2-4 minutes.
Results:
The debrider* removed almost all debris leaving healthy granulation tissue (including even small epithelialised islands of vital tissues) intact. (fig. 1 - 4) The patients didn’t feel adverse symptoms, in particular no pain. The healthcare professional’s global assessment revealed that the use of the debrider* was easy, fast and very efficient. Scanning electron microscopic analyses identified the majority of the removed debris tightly packed within the monofilament texture (fig. 5 and 6). Finally, a surgeon blindly assessed pictures of wounds (taken before / after the debridement), ranked all debridement results into the best category and one wound formerly classified for a need of surgical debridement as “equal to surgical debridement”.
Conclusion:
We have generated the basic proof of concept that the new debrider*-based technology is easy, fast, highly efficient, safe and well-tolerated. Further, since the new debrider* allows its broad use not only by specialised physicians but also by all healthcare professionals, it is anticipated that its use would save substantial costs. Hence, the new debrider* puts the need of other wound bed preparation procedures into question.