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NEW WOUND CARE
PRODUCT: P-GEL
Around
5 million people in the United States suffer from chronic,
non-healing wounds, many of them elderly or diabetics. These
wounds often result in amputation. Now a new treatment lets
patients help themselves.
 It
takes help from her daughter, but Kathryn Eckholdt is happy just
to get around. Poor health and chronic wounds had doctors
suggesting amputation.
"She would have
lost both legs very likely and I don't know if she would have made
it through either of those operations," says hyperbaric and
wound care specialist Paul Harch, M.D.
Instead, Dr. Harch,
of St. Charles General Medical Center in New Orleans, took care of
Eckholdt's health, then turned to P-Gel to treat her wounds.
According to him,
"The potential to minimize amputations is significant."
To create P-Gel,
blood is drawn and spun to separate it. The platelet-rich plasma
on top is combined with healing proteins, growth stimulants and
vitamins. The result is P-Gel -- a gel that is placed on the wound
every four days.
Dr. Harch says,
"The normal process of wound healing entails using the body's
normal defense mechanisms and normal healing factors and the P-Gel
replicates that."
 After
nine months, Eckholdt's wound is finally healing and her daughter,
Eirleen Brown, is relieved. Brown tells Ivanhoe, "It really
is close to a miracle. I cannot believe it."
P-Gel saved another
patient, Angela Williams, from having her leg amputated because of
a leg ulcer. Three applications and less than eight weeks and
Angela's wound went from looking like the picture on the left to
the picture on the right.
Williams tells
Ivanhoe, "It worked real fast. It started healing quick when
they started treating me with the gel."
It changed
Williams's life and Dr. Harch says it could change the future of
wound care. He adds, however,  that P-Gel most likely will not
replace hyperbarics to treat many wounds. Also, because the
gel is made from the patient's own blood, there is no risk of
rejection.
If you would
like more information, please contact:
Call
Center Tenet Hospital
(888) 836-3848
Auto-Genesis
Wound Care Advanced Therapy, LLC (800) 620-7435
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