A new zinc/iron wound management system is a novel, innovative technology that may have a great impact on wound care management. The following manuscript describes the phases and principles of modern wound healing it also includes a specific rationale for the development and application of the zinc/iron, management solution in combination with a newly developed occlusive dressing with reservoir. Data presented demonstrates the ability of the system to accelerate time to healing and reduce scar formation, which are two critical goals of modern wound care. Further, the wound management system is lightweight and relatively inexpensive.
Major Advantages
- Reduce Wound Closure Time
- Reduce Scarring
- Reduce Risk of Infection
- Improve Patient and Economic Outcomes
Unique Characteristics
- Unique formulation of Zinc and Iron ratio
- Antimicrobial activity - through maintenance of proper acidic pH
- Non-Allergenic
- Moist wound environment
- MVP (Moisture Vapor Permeability) - allows oxygenation
- Cascading Use - similar formation across all 4 products
Wound Environment Physiology
The disturbance of the immediate wound environment starts first with a rise in pH, since the traumatic damaged tissue delivers, due to the disturbed cell respiration, less CO2 into the tissue. Since the pH value of blood and tissue depends crucially on pCO2, a drop in the pCO2 causes a pH disturbance in the environment and thus affects the entire metabolism. The change of the biochemical reaction conditions connected with acidosis (acidifying the tissue by CO2-constriction) represents a biochemical condition required for the optimal metabolic sequence and a fast and thorough repair.
Important effects of acidosis:
- Increase in cell membrane and blood vessel permeability
- Liquefaction of the connective tissue (by separation of the colloids)
- Acidosis represents an unfavorable environment for many bacteria
- Acceleration of the metabolic process by relieved O2 release from hemoglobin and facilitated O2 delivery of the blood to the tissue (Bohr effect).
- Favorable environment for enzymatic metabolic processes.
