Clinical Newsletter
Regular updates on our latest clinical studies.
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 :
Aim: The aim of the present paper was to compare material and labour costs of a bio-cellulose dressing1 with traditional dressings (surgical pads, tulle grass, saline soaked gauze) and moist wound healing dressings.
Methods: A prospective cohort study measured clinical efficacy, materials and labour costs when using bio-cellulose dressing1 + film2 or bio-cellulose dressing1 + foam.3 60 patients with 73 complex wounds of various aetiologies were treated for a period of 1 year, in an out-patient clinic setting in Frankfurt and Neuwied, Germany and Bologna, Italy. The evaluated bio-cellulose dressing1 was combined with polyhexamethylene biguanide for reduction of bacterial burden. The present study results were compared to published data on complex wounds, treated with traditional dressings and moist wound healing dressings, to calculate cost differences.
Results: For the traditional dressings, cost calculations are based on 7.0 dressing changes/week. For moist wound healing dressings this was 3.0/week and for the bio-cellulose dressing 1.4/week. In comparison to the treatment with traditional dressings wound treatment costs with moist wound healing dressings were significantly lower. For calculation of a 3 months period, cost reduction for moist wound healing dressings was 49.4%, for bio-cellulose dressing1 + foam3 61.9% and 73.7% for bio-cellulose dressing1 + film.3
Conclusion: Moist wound healing dressings showed a cost reduction, compared to traditional dressings, with a larger cost reduction shown for bio-cellulose dressing.1 These findings are to be confirmed by randomized controlled studies.
Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) is an abnormal connection that can affect each part
of the vasculature (capillaries, arteries, veins or a combination of these) which usually
are congenital. This vascular anomaly is widely known because of its occurrence in
the central nervous system. Typically, patients with this condition seek help from a
number of physicians only to experience disappointing outcomes, complications, and
(Yakes, Rossi & Odink, recurrence or deterioration of their presenting symptoms
1996). Vascular malformations constitute some of the most difficult diagnostic and
therapeutic enigmas that can be encountered in medicine. These challenges are
compounded by the extreme rarity of these vascular lesions and the vascular
(Yakes, 1999 intervention required in treatment