Skinguns For Treating Wounds And Burns Without Scarring

I have been researching about how to prevent scarring from wounds and burns and I found out something promising about the skingun technology. Below is an excerpt from newsweek.com.

The treatment, developed by German researcher Dr Jörg Gerlach, is the world's first to use a  patient's stem cells to directly heal the skin.

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Pennsylvania Sate Trooper Matt Ryan was talking with his wife at a July fourth party in 2009 when a misjudged spray of gasoline burst through a nearby bonfire and set him alight. Flames covered the entire right side of his body and after he fell to the ground to smother them, his wife beat his head with her bare hands to put out his burning hair. It was only on the way to the ER, as the shock and adrenaline began to wear off, that the pain set in. "it was intense " he says. " if you can imagine what pins and needles feel like, then replace those needles with matches.

From the hospital, Uram was transferred to the Mercy Burn Center in Pittsburgh, where doctors removed all of the burned skin and dressed his wounds. It was in the border between a second and third degree burn, as he was told to prepare for months of pain and permanent disfigurement. Not long after this assessment, however, a doctor asked Uram if he would be willing to take part in an experimental trial of a new device.

The treatment, developed by German researcher Dr. Jörg Gerlach, was the world's first to use a patient's stem cells to directly heal the skin. If successful, the device would mend Uram's wound using his body's ability to regenerate fully functioning skin. Uram agreed to the procedure without hesitation.

Five days after the accident, surgeons removed a small section of undamaged skin from Uram's right thigh about the size of a postage stamp- used to  create a liquid suspension of his stem cells that was sprayed in a fine mist onto the damaged skin. Three days later, when it was time to remove the bandages and redress the wounds, his doctors was amazed by what he saw. The burns were almost completely healed and any risk of infection or scarring was gone.

Pennsylvania State Trooper Matt Uram's arm eventually healed without scarring.

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A study subsequently published in the Scientific Journal Burns described how the spray was able to regrow the skin across the burn by spreading thousands of tiny regenerative Islands, rather than forcing the wound to heal from its edge to the inside.
The technique meant :reducing the healing time" and "minimizing complications" with "aesthetically and functionally satisfying outcomes", the paper stated.

Dozens more burn victims in Germany and the US were successfully treated with the spray following Uram's procedure,  and in 2014 Gerlach sold the technology to RenovaCare.  The medical technology start up has now transformed the proof-of-concept device from complicated prototype into a user-friendly  product called a SkinGun which it hopes clinicians will be available to use outside of an experimental setting. For that to happen, RenovaCare is preparing clinical studies for later this year, with the aim of food and Drug Administration approved for the SkinGun
Once these obstacles are overcome, RenovaCare CEO Thomas Bold believes the skingun can compete with or even replace, today's standard of care. 

[source - newsweek.com]

This is amazing!  Now it's possible to treat wounds and burns without scarring.
To find more about this amazing technology, go to  newsweek.com








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