Considering the Role of pH in Wound Healing

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My name is Simon Tabchi. I'm a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. I currently practice in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. I'm part of PA Foot and Ankle Associates.

Wound pH is, is one of the biggest things in wounds, and if we don't understand the wound pH and how it's working in the body, we're never going to get our patients healed. So, studies have always shown the wound pH, when chronic wounds occur, they're in an alkaline state. How do we drop that from an alkaline state to a functional pH value in a more acidic state? And that's where these acidic polymers come into play with the Phoenix Wound Matrix. Dr. John Lantis, he did a review of a bunch of synthetics, and from that review, he saw that, you know, the Phoenix Wound Matrix was the only one that allowed us to really jumpstart those wounds and bring them back to an acute phase so that we can actually treat them and better care for them in order to get them to that healing potential.

My patient who has a complex venous wound ulcer, her biggest thing was pain. She had very, very significant pain. Her wounds were completely circumferential around both legs by the time I inherited the case. So the amount of debridement that they were able to actually do at the wound care center was not significant enough because she was just having too much pain. So I was able to do all of her debridement in the operating room. And within that first application, um, literally within about a week or two afterwards, the amount of reduction in pain that she had was very, very significant. So we're not only reducing the amount of pain and increasing their quality of care, but we're also, you know, addressing that pH balance and, and really addressing these wounds the way that we should be.