£1.7m project to explore groundbreaking new treatment for biofilm infections in foot ulcers
Date Time £1.7m project to explore groundbreaking new treatment for biofilm infections in foot ulcers A new £1.7m project to explore using plasma jets and antimicrobial dressings to treat debilitating – and potentially deadly – wound infections launches today. The groundbreaking Plasma-activated Antimicrobial Hydrogel Therapy (PAHT) would provide a new treatment modality for biofilm infections in diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), a type of wound which make up around 10 per cent of the 2.2m wounds reported annually in the UK. More than a third of the +4.5m diabetics in the UK have a lifetime ...