The „Spincare Wound Care System“ from Nanomedic Technologies Ltd. is a wound protection layer that is applied to injured skin using a type of gun called an electro spinning device. The gun sprays a thin liquid polymer solution onto wounds, such as moderate burns and chronic wounds. The damaged skin should be damaged to no more than the middle layer of leather skin (dermis). The technology may not yet be as suitable for larger wounds. For smaller, uneven areas of skin, the dense fiber structure forms a good protective layer because it can conform to the shape of the skin surface, as in the case of facial injuries, for example.
The „Spincare“ dressing forms the aforementioned dense matrix, through which neither water can penetrate nor pathogens and other germs can reach the wound. However, wound fluid produced in the wound can penetrate to the outside, which facilitates wound healing. Showering is thus also possible at an early stage without water getting to the wound that has not yet healed. Non-contact therapy with the spray mist of nanopolymer fibers also makes it easier for treating physicians and therapists to check wounds regularly, because the protective matrix layer becomes transparent on contact with wound fluid after injury or burns.
The deputy chief physician of the Center for Severe Burns with Plastic Surgery at Unfallkrankenhaus in Berlin, Frank Sander, is enthusiastic about the technology developed in Israel because the dressings, which look like Spiderman’s spider threads, bring many advantages. In particular, the non-contact treatment and rapid coverage of the wound without cutting wound dressings offers patients with pain an easily practicable solution. Moreover, after healing, the dressing comes off on its own. For large-area wounds, however, Sander prefers modern conventional wound dressings, such as those made of polylactite. However, the „Spincare“ wound system works very well for skin transplants to care for the donor sites.
Source: www.heise.de