Wound treatment
IDEAL FOR HARD-TO-HEAL WOUNDS
Wound treatment
Vivostat® recommends using a bioactive autologous platelet enriched fibrin in wound treatment. Vivostat® PRF contains the essential growth factors that are crucial when treating challenging wounds and burns.
The combination of platelets and fibrin in Vivostat® PRF is unique. Not only does the fibrin protect the platelets from proteolytic degradation, but it also ensures a slow release of growth factors over time. Also, the autologous solution polymerizes immediately upon application, which means that the platelets stay where they are applied.
Vivostat® PRF has shown almost unbelievable results when it comes to:
- Chronic wounds
- Diabetic ulcers
- Venous ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Surgical wounds
- Skin grafts
- Burns
- Skin grafts
- Faces/necks/hands
For decades fibrin sealant has been used for burns as a scaffold for re-epithelialization. Vivostat® PRF provides this scaffold and combines it with a high concentration of platelets relevant for tissue regeneration.
The high concentration of fibrin found in Vivostat® PRF, furthermore, acts as a glue enabling the surgeon to use Vivostat® PRF for graft fixations. The solution also acts as a haemostatic reducing the risk of haematoma formation, which may cause graft loss. Any remaining Vivostat® PRF can be applied to the graft harvest site to speed up tissue regeneration or it can be split up in several dozes and freeze for continuous treatment over a period.
For orthopeadic surgery wounds we recommend using ArthroZheal®.
main advantages using vivostat®
- Regeneration of tissue
- Neovascularization
- Killing of wound bacterias
- Proven results with chronic wounds
WHEN SKIN CELLS OR MEDICATION IS NEEDED
One of the many unique properties of the Vivostat® System is the possibility to co-apply. With the Vivostat® Co-Delivery system you can apply substances (e.g. BMAC, stem cells chondrocytes or medications like antibiotics) together with the Vivostat® PRF. In wound care we have seen excellent results when keratinocytes are applied together with the growth factors.
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Vivostat® in wound treatment
Click on the video and see Vivostat® PRF in use for treatment of chronic foot ulcer. See more videos on treatment on hard-to-heal wounds below.
Vivostat® Co-Delivery
The revolutionary system makes it possible to co-apply e.g. stem cells or antibiotics with the Vivostat® product.
Vivostat® PRF
Using the Vivostat® System, you can prepare autologous platelets with multiple growth factors embedded in a matrix.
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