Electrical Therapy Device Heals Chronic Wounds

A high-tech non-invasive medical device addresses the major problem of healing chronic wounds without interfering with standard conventional therapy.

The KFH Novo is a small, portable, medical device that utilizes Bio-Electric Stimulation Therapy (BEST) to deliver extremely low levels of electrical current to wounds. The electrodes are placed at a distance from the wounds, completely outside the normal treatment areas. Parameters are set via an interactive touch-screen panel. BEST has been shown to heal different types of chronic wounds such as venous ulcers, pressure sores, and diabetic ulcers, even where they have been open for longer than a year. The therapy works by enhancing the physiological processes of wound healing, including stimulation of fibroblast cells to activate wound healing; increasing the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to provide the energy needed to restart tissue healing; and increasing the blood and oxygen supply to wound beds by angiogenesis and protein synthesis. BEST also attracts keratinocytes--the major cell type of the epidermis, making up about 90% of epidermal cells--and macrophages by galvanotaxis. The KFH Novo is a product of Kingfisher Healthcare (KFH, Leuven, Belgium).

"The initial results with KFH Novo appear to be very promising. Some wounds that we could not get closed with standard treatments healed completely when KFH Novo was applied,” said Professor Raf Meesen, Ph.D., from Limburg University College (Belgium).

"Chronic wounds remain a major clinical challenge and represents a big burden to health care systems everywhere, both in terms of human and financial resources,” said Dr. Henk Snyman, CEO of KFH. "KFH Novo is a very cost-effective solution, and we expect significant demand from wound care professionals.”


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