Cold plasma makes wounds heal faster

Nessr Abu Rached presents preliminary study results at a press conference Sept. Kim Pottkämper, www.kimoment.de - The gold standard for the treatment of chronic wounds is thus obsolete . Once the leg is open, patients often begin a long journey of suffering. Despite cleaning of the chronic wound, special dressings and regular dressing changes according to current guidelines, it often takes many weeks and months for the skin to heal. In the multicenter study ,,Plasma On Chronic Wounds for Epidermal Regeneration", POWER for short, a study team from the Ruhr University Bochum together with other centers (including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich) compared treatment according to the gold standard with additional treatment with a cold plasma. An interim evaluation shows that the plasma significantly accelerates wound healing and reduces pain and infections. The interim results were published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine on August 4, 2023, and presented in a press conference at the Reichstag building in Berlin on September 12, 2023.