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The Ultimate Burn Center Medical Technology

 

 

This doc segment was aired in 2011.

 

This spectacular medical art needs to extend to all burn centers everywhere.

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Research Info:

 

Burn Therapy Research News link

 

 

There's a lotta chatter about this being a hoax, I don't know if the Nat Geo documentry was real or a dramatization, what I do know is the reseach and development are very real indeed.

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Holy Shit, if that is true that boys on his way to a Nobel!

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Dr. Mark?

 

 

A few years ago I got certified in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, which is the treatment and healing of wounds, burns and so forth.

For the most part, it's always a painful and extremely unpleasant process.

 

Happily, we are evolving all the time. Hyperbarics have helped.

That involves sticking patients into a hyperbaric chamber, which pressurizes them in a 100% oxygen atmosphere, and the increased partial pressure of the oxygen forces the skin to heal at a MUCH higher rate than is normal. Pretty cool.

 

This (the "skin gun") is extremely promising technology, but it's still in it's infancy.

It uses sprayed-on stem cells which then differentiate into skin cells on the surface of the burn.

 

It was first developed in Germany, and is currently being evaluated at several academic medical research facilities in the U.S., which should lead to FDA approval. .

 

Interestingly, some of it's major components are based on 20-year-old tech.

 

It's just really unfortunate that we banned experimentation on stem cells for so long.

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It's just really unfortunate that we banned experimentation on stem cells for so long.

 

Amen!!! That might not be the right word.

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Wow..... Very cool. Once again, German engineering at it's finest.

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Did it work on that nose,Doc? Might have been worth trying in May! LOL

 

Jeff

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"It's just really unfortunate that we banned experimentation on stem cells for so long."

 

It might be interesting to see the membership dealing with this on the proposed political forum.

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