The emerging application of cold plasma in the healthcare industry

The topic of discussion on 25th June 2018 at Journal Club Meeting was ‘The emerging application of cold plasma in the healthcare industry’. Plasma medicine is an emerging field that combines different fields such as life sciences, clinical medicine, and plasma physics. This field utilizes ionized gas that is the physical plasma for the medicinal and therapeutic purpose. Plasma is the fourth state of matter after solid, liquid, and gas. Source of plasma medicine is usually low-temperature plasma capable of generating ions or chemical reactive ions, atoms, molecules and ultraviolet photons. In this context, low temperature means room temperature or usually slightly above, to avoid skin burns that operates at atmospheric pressure. Plasma is partially ionized with < 1ppm of the gas being charged species and the remaining composes of neutral gas. Such plasma generated active and reactive species possess varied biomedical application, e.g. sterilization of surgical instruments and devices, modifying biomedical surface properties and cancer treatment. Most of the research performed until now is in vitro and in animal models.
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