Biomedical applications of plasma require its efficacy for specific purposes and equally importantly its safety. Despite the widespread applications of non-thermal plasmas in clinical practise the safety issue of plasma treatment is rarely assessed. The presentation at international conference highlights the safety levels of cold plasma created with simple atmospheric pressure plasma jet produced with helium gas and electrode discharge. Safety levels ware evaluated in skin damage on mouse, at different duration of exposure and gas flow rates. The results indicate that skin damages could be controlled by the selection of the parameters, as well with the plasma gas components and applicator modifications. Therefore, the aim of the study was to point out the safety issue of plasma treatment and to highlight the possible modifications that could aid to the improvement and translation of plasma application into the clinic.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2755195Gaseous plasma treatment at atmospheric pressure has developed in the last few years into innovative and growing field of research with specific emphasis in biomedical applications. Current development relay to the design of advanced plasma sources and delivery techniques, to maintain approved safety standards and to investigate the processes that are of relevance in medicine and health care, such as sterilization of inert surfaces, inducing blood coagulation, increasing the wound healing and promoting the drug delivery into the cells and living tissues. Biomedical applications of plasma require its efficacy for specific purposes and equally importantly its safety. Despite the widespread applications of non-thermal plasmas in clinical practise the safety issue of plasma treatment is rarely assessed. In the scope of presented the study, safety levels of cold plasma created with simple atmospheric pressure plasma jet produced with helium gas and electrode discharge are evaluated in skin damage on mouse, at different duration of exposure and gas flow rates. The results indicate that skin damages could be controlled by the selection of the parameters, as well with the plasma gas components and applicator modifications. Therefore, the aim of the study was to point out the safety issue of plasma treatment and to highlight the possible modifications that could aid to the improvement and translation of plasma application into the clinic.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2619259Invited plenary talk at joint APMAS 2017, 7th International Advances in Applied Physics and Materials Science Congress & Exhibition, and BIOMATSEN 2017, 3rd International Symposium on Biomaterials & Biosensors, in which different aspects of plasma-surface interactions with biomaterials including skin were presented. The results presented were obtained on project N3-0059.
B.04 Guest lecture
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