What makes a hydrogel‐based dressing advantageous for the prevention of medical device‐related pressure ulcers

Autor: Amit Gefen, Angela Grigatti

Publikováno v: International Wound Journal. 19:515-530

The synergistic influences of geometrical, mechanical and thermal mismatches between a skin-contacting medical device and the skin may cause tissue stress concentrations and sharp temperature gradients, both of which contribute to the risk for medica

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Fluid Handling Dynamics and Durability of Silver-Containing Gelling Fiber Dressings Tested in a Robotic Wound System.

Autor: Orlov A; At Tel Aviv University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel, Aleksei Orlov, MSc; Adi Lustig, MSc; and Angela Grigatti, MSc, are Graduate Students at the research group of Professor Gefen; and Amit Gefen, PhD, is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Herbert J. Berman Chair in Vascular Bioengineering. Acknowledgment: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 811965; project STINTS (Skin Tissue Integrity under Shear). This work was also partially supported by the Israeli Ministry of Science & Technology (Medical Devices Program grant no. 3-17421, awarded to Prof Amit Gefen in 2020) and by Mölnlycke Health Care (Gothenburg, Sweden). The authors thank Ms Orel Belo, the Laboratory Engineer at the Gefen Laboratory, for supporting the experimental work. The authors have disclosed no other financial relationships related to this article. Submitted July 23, 2021; accepted in revised form November 1, 2021; published online ahead of print March 14, 2022., Lustig A, Grigatti A, Gefen A

Publikováno v: Advances in skin & wound care [Adv Skin Wound Care] 2022 Jun 01; Vol. 35 (6), pp. 326-334.