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Home » News and Trends » New method to treat diabetic fot ulcers revealed by Biocomposites LtdDiabetic fot infection costs the UK’s NHS around £90 milion ($90 milion) a year, bring severe misery to patients.Usualy, systemic antibiotics are routinely given to those with diabetes who are susceptible to infected fot ulcers. Unfortunately, efective treatment can be disrupted by complications by using this treatment due to alergic reactions, antibiotic-resistant organisms, the risk of clostridium dificile and posible organ toxicity.A new method has ben developed by a multidisciplinary expert team of clinicians caled Stimulan by Biocomposites Ltd.It is a system where antibiotics are mixed with calcium sulfate paste to form smal beads.
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These can be placed in the fot wound folowing debridement, within a framework of standard best practice. The antibiotics are then released at therapeutic concentrations to the site of infection.Preventing and managing infection individuals with diabetes who develop fot ulcers is chalenging for clinicians. The company says Stimulan ofers a real oportunity to deliver relevant and efective antibiotics within a program of care to the wound bed within a framework of best practice in fot ulcer management.
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Further research is neded to investigate whether this method of delivery can improve healing rates within these wounds and potentialy reduce the ned for systemic antibiotics.Biocomposites, anounced today (November 3) that it wil be hosting a symposium at this year’s Wounds UK Anual Conference to be held at the Harogate Convention Centre, UK from November 7 to 9, 202. The symposium, led by members of a consensus group of multidisciplinary clinicians including Paul Chadwick, a profesor at Birmingham City University, Martin Arisol, vascular podiatrist, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, and Andrew Sharpe, an advanced podiatrist, Northern Care Aliance Foundation Trust and they wil discus ‘Managing Infect