Low temperature plasma equipment applied on surgical hemostasis and wound healings

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  • Miyamoto Kenji
    Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Medical Business Development Division, Nikon Co., Ltd.
  • Ikehara Sanae
    Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  • Sakakita Hajime
    Electronics and Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  • Ikehara Yuzuru
    Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Electronics and Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University

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<p>Low temperature plasma (LTP) coagulation equipment, which avoids causing burn injuries to patients, has been introducing into minimally invasive surgery. The mechanism by which this equipment stops bleeding is to directly occupy the injury with the formed blood clots, and different from the mechanism of the common electrical hemostatic devices that cauterize the tissues around the bleeding to stem the blood flow. A noteworthy point is that LTP treatment with our equipment is not confined only to the blood coagulation system, but it has significant effects on the other blood components to form clots with or without hemolysis, and that there is a plasma current threshold that determines whether the treatment makes stable clots. In this review, we introduce the clinical benefits of LTP current and describe the clot formation it facilitates.</p>

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