Bed rest causes complications such as loss of muscle mass, strength and tone; soft tissue change, osteoporosis (bone demineralisation), degenerative joint disease, increased heart rate, decreased cardiac reserve, decreased venous flow, orthostatic hypotension with dysregulated sense of balance, increased risk of pulmonary infections, mental health problems, progressive increase…
Difference between acute and chronic osteomyelitis (bone infection) Acute osteomyelitis is usually detectable two weeks after infection has taken place. Only inflammation is seen. If acute osteomyelitis is detected and acted upon urgently, and if the antibiotics provided are effective against the infective microbe - i.e. if the…
A pressure ulcer or pressure sore was detected and treated for 2 months with UrgoTul initially and later UrgoTul and Flaminal. The wound did not heal but degraded into a deep infected, necrotic grade 4 pressure ulcer. Amicapsil-SCI was used and the extensive slough and exudate levels quickly…
At the time of starting treatment with Amicapsil-SCI, the pressure ulcer had been observed approximately two weeks earlier. The treatment use prior to Amicapsil-SCI was irrigation with saline, disinfection with Vashe, Medihoney in the wound bed, and covered with a Medipore dressing. Signs of a minor infection was…
There are currently no effective treatments for wounds. With 2.3 million wounds in the UK in 2017, the annual direct costs of care reached £17.23 billion and are growing by 12% each year. A treatment, MPPT, has been developed and is available. By implementing this, the NHS could…
New data indicate that the global annual prevalence of pressure ulcers in SCI-persons is 32.4% (Shiferaw et al. 2020). When a pressure ulcer is severe and not treated aggressively it can lead to further disability (e.g., reduced mobility, dependence, surgical intervention, amputation, fatal infection; Krause 1998). It has…
MPPT reverses wound regression caused by the antiseptic PHMB Amicapsil was used on this wound for 4 months from late June to mid-October and had been able to remove a wound infection and advance the healing of the wound. Please refer to the case report “35 year old…
A 74-year-old lady had received very high doses of radiotherapy 35 years ago to treat cervical cancer. This had created an abscess which 35 years later, in March 2017, revealed itself as a sizeable patch of eschar (dry, black necrosis) on the right side of the lower back…
Background As a consequence of hospitalisation, ICU, in connection with initial spinal injury, an approximately 60-year-old man developed a sacrum pressure ulcer which very quickly expanded to a category 4. It became heavily infected, and over the following 15 months in hospital followed by 19 months in community…
Patient was a woman in her late thirties C5 complete quadriplegic, 20 years paralysed. The pressure ulcer was a category 2 of 1.5cm x 1.4cm below the sacral area and had been persistent for 2 years. It had no tunnelling and undermining. It had once closed, however only…