Electrical stimulation of chronic wounds and pressure ulcers – from origins to the present day (review).



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Abstract

Healing of chronic wounds and pressure ulcers remains a current problem of surgery. Methods of their local treatment, despite the diversity, have some drawbacks.

Aim: to evaluate the effectiveness of electrical wound stimulation technology in patients with chronic wounds and pressure ulcers based on literature data.

Materials and methods. We used the international PubMed database to search and select relevant works. The use of electric current in medicine to improve the healing of various types of wounds has a long history. Based on literature data, we described the fundamental mechanisms of wound electrical stimulation are outlined, various options for the technique, its advantage. Also we carried out the analysis of the effectiveness of the technology, including in combination with other physical factors.

Conclusion: the technology of electrical stimulation of chronic wounds and pressure ulcers significantly improves the course of complicated wound process. The introduction of the latest devices has great clinical prospects. The best results are achievable with a combination of wound electrical stimulation with other physicochemical techniques.

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Evgeny L. Altukhov

Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology

Author for correspondence.
Email: altukhoff@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8306-2538
SPIN-code: 8150-3473

surgeon

Russian Federation, Moscow

Aleksandr M. Shulutko

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Email: shulutko@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8001-1601

MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), professor

Russian Federation, Moscow

Elkhan G. Osmanov

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)

Email: mma-os@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1451-1015

MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.), professor

Russian Federation, Moscow

Alexey A. Yakovlev

Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology

Email: ayakovlev@fnkcrr.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8482-1249
SPIN-code: 2783-9692

MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Moscow

Elena G. Gandibina

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Email: alzas2007@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6765-5154
SPIN-code: 7590-2148

MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine), associate professor

Russian Federation, Moscow

Yu. S Paskhalova

A.V.Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation; People’s Friendship University of Russia

Email: 9057176757@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1215-8035
SPIN-code: 5401-1879

канд. мед. наук, зав. отд-нием гнойной хирургии

Russian Federation, 117997, Russian Federation, Moscow, ul. Bol'shaia Serpukhovskaia, d. 27

Alexander A. Shaibak

Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology

Email: shaybak@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0087-1466
SPIN-code: 8544-5407

Head of the Department. branches

Russian Federation, Moscow

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