Russia offers technology for accelerated treatment of combat wounds

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the South Ural State Medical University have developed a technology and a device and hardware complex for applying the laser cavitation method in medicine - for treating infected wounds and removing unwanted formations in tissues.

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"The complex is a simple set of equipment. It includes a medical laser device and a quartz-polyamide optical fiber with a diameter of 0.4-0.6 mm. If the fiber is immersed in water and fed through it short-wave infrared radiation, which is intensely absorbed by water, it instantly boils at the end of the fiber, which has an area of less than half a millimeter and where the energy density is very high," - told "Izvestia" the head of the project, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics FEB RAS Mikhail Guzev.

The scientist explained that during heating vapor-gas bubbles are formed. They collapse due to contact with the "cold" environment. This leads to the emergence of hot jets and shock waves. They affect pathologic formations, destroying them.

According to Guzev, the technology is being developed in two directions. The first is the elimination of pathological structures such as cysts, blood vessel beds, varicose veins and others. The second is irrigation of infected acute and chronic wounds. Such a technique has been tested at special military operation and has shown good results. Including for the treatment of mine blast wounds and other complex injuries.