Advanced Wound Care Summit 2023
We’re looking forward to presenting at the Advanced Wound Care Summit in Boston, USA in 2 weeks. Our Managing Director, Mary McGovern, will be presenting on our SteriPlas Cold Plasma and the strong benefits it brings to preventing amputations, reducing bed occupancy and saving lives.
Our presentation, “Cold Argon Plasma: A Powerful Tool for Infection Management, Biofilm Destruction and AMR” will explain our clinical evidence on the infection management of chronic, non-healing and infected wounds, impact of argon plasma on biofilm and the use of cold argon plasma in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
We’re also open to meetings during the conference and would welcome your interest in our proven and patented technology. Send us an email at info@adtecplasma.com to learn more.
Day 2 of EWMA
It's day 2 at EWMA 2023 and we're having a great time meeting with new and existing customers. If you want to learn about the most effective Cold Plasma medical device for woundccare with the most clinical trials, strongest efficacy and no side effects, please visit our booth at no. 116 to see a live demonstration of the SteriPlas in action.
Mr Schlöglhofer to present SteriPlas at the ISHLT
Congratulations to Thomas Schlöglhofer from the Medical University of Vienna for his continued success of using our medical device to treat infections in LVAD patients. He will be presenting at The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) conference in April to deliver the great results he has so far achieved.
His presentation, “Cold Atmospheric Plasma Therapy: A Powerful Tool for Treating Driveline Infections in Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients” will be during the “Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs: Fighting Infection in VADs Any Way We Can” Session on Wednesday 19th April between 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM.
We hope you will be there too to see him deliver his promising results.
For more information on how our medical device is fighting against multi resistant bacteria and biofilm in LVAD patients.
SteriPlas heals wounds quickly
Did you catch the leading Serbian media newspaper, Večernje Novosti, last week? Our SteriPlas was featured in the article, “Cold plasma heals wounds quickly” composed by Dr Zorić.
Dr Zoric has been using our cold plasma medical device to treat hard-to-heal and stalled wounds infected with biofilm. These problematic wounds have responded very well with our SteriPlas treatment and patients have been healed that were otherwise stalled by conventional therapies.
If you are within Serbia and interested to learn more about our medical device, contact our medical distributor Borf Health Care on info@borf.biz for more information.
Dr H. Rotering presenting SteriPlas DSWI efficacy at Herzmidizin 2023 conference
Dr Heinrich Rotering will be presenting at the Herzmedizin 2023 conference on 14th February 2023. His presentation, “Tissue saving – Plasma based treatment concept for sternal infection including one year follow-up” will show the benefits of our SteriPlas cold plasma medical device for the treatment of deep sternal wound infections.
The benefit our cold plasma device has for these chronic wound infections is the ability to give a deep penetration treatment allowing plasma coverage over the wide infected area. As our medical device is the only microwave-powered, argon cold plasma device with a wide 12cm2 treatment size and is contact-free, the overall sessions are quickly completed. The mean wound healing for deep sternal wound infections is 16 days with the SteriPlas.
Contact us at info@adtecplasma.com to learn more about the SteriPlas.
Cold Plasma Diabetic Foot Ulcer Clinical Trial Published
Congratulations to Dr Cornelia Wiegand for her published clinical trial paper, “The efficacy of non-thermal gas plasma in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers stalled by subclinical, biofilm-related wound infection”. This clinical trial paper features the use of our SteriPlas Cold Plasma medical device for the treatment of chronic DFUs infected with biofilm.
The parameters of this study were set much higher than a normal study, with there being a much higher standard of care given (3x per week) vs a typical outpatient setting of 1x weekly.
We wanted to show that even when chronic diabetic foot ulcers are subjected to more frequent outpatient visits with biopsies and swabs included (something not often collected during standard outpatient visits), SteriPlas Cold Plasma still prevails as the successful treatment method due to its physical mode of action and ability to kill all types of bacteria protected within biofilm.
Presentation at the DFSG 2022
We're so excited for exhibiting at the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG) conference next week. Please be sure to visit us at booth no.11 where we will based during the conference. We welcome you to see our SteriPlas Cold Plasma medical device live in action.
We're also excited to announce that the Diabetes Team at Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will have a poster presentation illustrating the strong antibacterial efficacy and healing qualities of the Adtec SteriPlas for diabetic foot ulcers.
The poster, "DGH EXPERIENCE OF USING COLD PLASMA MEDICAL DEVICE AS AN ADJUNCT THERAPY TO ANTIMICROBIALS IN TREATING CHRONIC NON HEALING INFECTED DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS" will be presented by Jemma Cruickshank on Saturday 17th September, 13:25 - 14:25.
See you all soon!
Antimicrobial (antibiotic) Resistance – the drugs won’t work !
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global threat of far-reaching proportions. It is estimated that drug resistant infections contribute to nearly 5 million deaths every year and predicted to increase to over 10 million deaths every year. WHO has declared that AMR is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity.
(The worldwide total deaths from COVID is now just over 6 million and we all know how frightening it was before the vaccine was developed)
AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result, the medicines become ineffective and infections persist in the body, increasing the risk of spread to others. Microorganisms that develop antimicrobial resistance are sometimes referred to as “superbugs”. Without effective antimicrobials, the success of modern medicine in treating infections, including during major surgery and cancer chemotherapy, would be at increased risk. Chronic infections if left untreated could result in tissue damage, amputation, longer stays in hospitals, surgical interventions, or increased possibility of mortality. Patients who are infected with drug-resistant infections are more likely to develop complications and are up to three times more likely to die from the infection. Non-healing wounds in particular, are characterised by complex and mixed bacterial populations, often involving antibiotic-resistant bacteria as well as phenotypically tolerant bacteria in biofilm form. The biofilm factor is clearly of considerable clinical importance: it protects bacteria from antimicrobial agents leading to persistent and difficult to treat chronic infections, and it exacerbates the spread of antibiotic resistance. Surgical Site Infections are also linked to anti-microbial resistance.
SteriPlas cold plasma technology kills bacteria by a physical mode of action and bacteria are therefore unlikely to develop primary or secondary resistance, which we have documented from our clinical studies. SteriPlas cold plasma also kills antibiotic resistant bacteria (e.g. MRSA) and kills bacteria encased in biofilm which are typically up to 1000 times more resistant to antibiotics. SteriPlas has proven clinical efficacy in treating wound infections, diabetic foot infections and surgical site infections in all clinical studies, all with the bonus of no side effects reported.
SteriPlas cold plasma can be used to treat topical infections reserving antibiotics for severe systemic infections.
References
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02724-0/fulltext
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://www.who.int/health-topics/antimicrobial-resistance
https://healthfirsteurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/A3A4-48pp-Booklet-Spreads-1.pdf
Bowler, P., Murphy, C. & Wolcott, R. Biofilm exacerbates antibiotic resistance: Is this a current oversight in antimicrobial stewardship?. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 9, 162 (2020).
Diabetic Foot Study Group Conference
Are you excited as we are?
Looking forward to resuming exhibition season at the Diabetic Foot Study Group conference in Slovakia.
We'll be exhibiting between 16-18 Sept with our Adtec SteriPlas on demonstration ready to show you just how quick and effective it is to use and combat antibiotic resistant bacteria within diabetic foot ulcers.
Next week welcomes the start of the exhibition season
Find us next week at the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgeons in Belfast from 8-10 May. We'll be at booth 18 ready to welcome you and introduce the benefits of #coldplasma in cardiothoracic #infection conditions.
From 10-13 May, we will also be exhibiting at the Malvern Diabetic Foot Conference looking forward to seeing regular faces from this prestigious conference.
We will have our Adtec SteriPlas medical device on our booths, ready to give you a live demonstration of how effective cold plasma is at killing bacteria protected within biofilm.
