Do You Have a Complex Wound?

Complex Wounds which are often difficult-to-heal, result from different factors, including, disruptionfrom tissue loss, comorbid disease states, and inadequate blood flow. These wound types requirewound care specialists to incorporate an extra component into their management, such as woundbiologics (or skin substitutes).

What are Skin Substitutes?

Skin substitutes are artificial or biological materials that provide coverage to exposed
complex skin wounds. With time, these materials can restore skin functionalities to the
affected wound patient.

Benefits of Skin Substitutes

Skin substitutes accelerate wound healing and minimize infections, and complications.
Skin substitutes are ideal for non-healing or difficult-to-heal wounds, including vascular
insufficiency or venous ulcers, diabetic neuropathic ulcers, and pressure ulcers. They are also
useful for post traumatic wounds. There is a decreased likelihood of infection, amputation and
even mortality rate when using advanced skin substitutes. Other benefits of skin substitutes
include:

Accelerated wound closure
Increase in growth factors
Fibroblast formation facilitation
Angiogenesis; accelerate blood vessel formation
Aids the formation of endothelial cells
Formation of extracellular collagen matrix

What are the Indications for Skin Substitutes?

Dr. Parth Dixit is more likely to consider skin substitutes for patients with superficial, partial,
and deep arterial/vascular/diabetic wounds. Moreover, chronic and non-healing wound
patients and skin graft donors are ideal candidates for skin substitutes.
Other indications for incorporating skin substitutes into wound healing include:

Partial Thickness Burns
Diabetic Foot Ulcerations
Acute / Chronic Wounds
Venous Stasis Ulcerations
Traumatic Wounds
Arterial Ulcerations

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