I have personal experience with artificial skin products. Someone close to me had a persistent wound on their lower leg that would not heal. Repeated debridement, hyperbaric oxygen, and such didn't get it to heal, but application of patches of a (then new) cultured skin product healed it immediately. Huge QoL improvement.
southernplaces7 98 days ago [-]
Was there any specific reason why it wouldn't heal no matter what? Something like diabetes maybe? As far as I know wounds that don't want to heal are pretty rare in people with more or less normal health..
pfdietz 98 days ago [-]
Not diabetes. I don't think it was ever really determined, even though a skin sample was sent to the Mayo Clinic.
canadiantim 98 days ago [-]
They were cut with a morgul blade, that wound would’ve never healed without elvish medicine.
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1oooqooq 98 days ago [-]
every country have a dozen start ups rushing to patent the same thing globally.
it's mostly a game or passing trials for something that's obviously good and the alternative so far have 100% death* (burns over 80%). it just shows how ineffective is the whole system.
* but the investors are way more interested in permanent wound cases and they will price those like they usually price things with low mortality but high quality is life.
iancmceachern 98 days ago [-]
A lot of medicine is this way
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it's mostly a game or passing trials for something that's obviously good and the alternative so far have 100% death* (burns over 80%). it just shows how ineffective is the whole system.
* but the investors are way more interested in permanent wound cases and they will price those like they usually price things with low mortality but high quality is life.