Advanced wound repair therapies /

Wound repair is an important and growing sector of the medical industry with increasingly sophisticated biomaterials and strategies being developed to treat wounds. Advanced wound repair therapies provides readers with up-to-date information on current and emerging biomaterials and advanced therapie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Farrar, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Woodhead Publ., 2011.
Colección:Woodhead Publishing in materials.
Temas:
Wounds and injuries > Treatment.
Wound healing.
Wound Healing
Wounds and Injuries > therapy
Biocompatible Materials > therapeutic use
Polymers > therapeutic use
Bandages
L�esions et blessures > Traitement.
Cicatrisation.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
Wound healing
Wounds and injuries > Treatment
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1 Introduction to chronic wounds: Dysfunctional wound healing in chronic wounds
  • The role of micro-organisms and biofilms in dysfunctional wound healing
  • Scarring and scarless wound healing
  • The discovery and development of new therapeutic treatments for the improvement of scarring
  • Monitoring chronic wounds and determining treatment. Part 2 Biomaterial therapies for chronic wounds: Functional requirements of wound repair biomaterials
  • Tissue-biomaterial interaction
  • Polymeric materials for chronic wound and burn dressings
  • Dry wound healing concept using spray-on dressing for chronic wounds
  • Assessing the effectiveness of antimicrobial wound dressings in vitro
  • Adhesives and interfacial phenomena in wound healing
  • Wound healing studies and interfacial phenomena: Use and relevance of the corneal model
  • Sulphonated biomaterials as glycosaminoglycan mimics in wound healing. Part 3 Molecular therapies for chronic wounds: Drug delivery dressings
  • Molecular and gene therapies for wound repair
  • Antimicrobial dressings
  • Avotermin: emerging evidence of efficacy for the improvement of scarring. Part 4 Biologically-derived and cell-based therapies for chronic wounds: Engineered tissues for wound repair
  • Commercialisation of engineered tissue products
  • Biologically derived scaffolds
  • Stem cell therapies for wound repair. Part 5 Physical stimulation therapies for chronic wounds: Electrical stimulation for wound healing
  • Negative pressure wound therapy
  • Debridement methods of non-viable tissue in wounds.

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