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Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy Services
Learn more about how platelet rich therapy can enhance your blood management program.
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Platelet Gel Therapy
Surgery in and of itself creates a controlled injury to your body's tissue. Fortunately, your body is equipped with healing mechanisms that begin a multi-stage healing process the moment the injury occurs. Proteins found within your body's bloodstream react like a response team and start performing a multitude of activities to stop bleeding, attract infection-fighting cells and initiate new cell formation. We all heal at different rates depending on our genes and physical attributes. Although the same surgical techniques are often utilized on two separate patients, no two surgeries are ever identical because the patients themselves are unique.You will heal differently from your best friend or the person sitting across the room. Even within a single surgery, your body may heal differently in one area compared to another.
Orthopedic, neurology, cardiovascular, oral, and plastic-based surgical procedures are quickly gaining momentum, and platelet-rich plasma therapy services (PRP) greatly reduce the amount of time needed to recover from a surgical procedure, while also:
- Reducing inflammation
- Decreasing scarring on the skin
- Functioning as an autologous blood product
- Immediately stops bleeding
At Strata Critical, we can help you with the entire process of adding PRP as a service to your hospital or practice. Our start-up program helps you:
- Quickly establish policy and procedures
- Rapidly schedule procedures
- Accurately and efficiently bill
- Educate your hospital or office’s personnel
- Ensure you have all necessary credentialing documents
- Get instant access to all equipment and supplies needed
- Give you our contractual commitment to excellence
At Strata Critical, we are a leading provider of the most innovative and cutting-edge perfusion and PRP techniques available. You will receive custom solutions tailored especially to your organization’s unique needs.
What is Platelet Gel?
Platelet Gel is a substance that is created by harvesting your body's own natural healing factors from your blood and combining it with thrombin and calcium to form a coagulum.
This coagulum or "platelet gel" has an extremely wide range of clinical healing uses from dental surgery to orthopedics and plastic surgery.
Platelet Gel is 100% biocompatible and safe. It poses absolutely no infectious risk to because it is made from your own blood.
Platelet Gel is a widely used and globally accepted safe, simple, and effective treatment modality for various surgical procedures and non-healing wounds.
New and emerging technologies have embraced the current use of Platelet Gel for various types of wound repair. Researchers have identified the importance of growth factors and how it dramatically influences the natural course of wound repair. These growth factors began with platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), transforming growth factor (TGF) and the subsequent identification of many other growth factors now known to be important for active wound repair. Research has demonstrated that platelets contain a rich source of multiple growth factors within the alpha granules, which are secreted after activation with thrombin. Platelet counts in excess of 500K/ul suspended in plasma with a native fibrinogen concentration can lead to improved surgical hemostasis and faster wound healing.
Platelet Gel is 100% biocompatible and safe.
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How is Platelet Gel Made?
Prior to starting surgery, approximately 60 ml of blood is taken form the patient. This small blood volume is then placed into a tube and spun in a high-speed centrifuge. This process automatically separates the blood into several different components, one of which we refer to as the "buffy coat" or platelet-rich plasma.
On activation with thrombin/calcium to form a coagulum, the platelets intertwine with the forming fibrin web and immediately release highly active vasoconstrictors.
The resulting Platelet Gel contains up to a 4-10 time increase of your natural platelets, white blood cells, and healing factors with the adhesiveness and strength materially greater than the plasma alone.
This concentration of "Platelet Rich Plasma" enriches the natural clot to initiate a more rapid and complete healing process.
Benefits from the use of Platelet Gel include:
- Decreased bleeding and bruising
- Decreased risk of infection
- Decreased dermal scarring
- Decreased surgical discomfort
- Improved appearance of suture lines
- Increases in collagen formation and new blood vessel formation
- Faster skin healing
- Acceleration of bone healing
Physical Components of Platelet Gel
In addition to platelets, Platelet Gel also contains elevated levels of all your natural occurring growth factors. These factors are responsible for stimulating new cell growth and increasing the rate of wound healing.The physiological components of platelet gel consist of:
- PDGF (Platelet-derived growth factor)
- TGF-a&b (Transforming growth factor alpha and beta)
- EGF (Epidermal growth factor)
- FGF (Fibroblast growth factor)
- IGF (Insulin growth factor)
- PDEGF (Platelet-derived epidermal growth factor)
- PDAF (Platelet-derived angiogenesis factor)
- High concentration of leukocytes (Neutrophils, eosinophils) for microbicidal events
- High concentration of wound macrophages and other phagocytic cells, for biological debridement
- Histamines, Serotonin, ADP, Thromboxane A2, and other vasoactive and chemotactic agents
- High platelet concentration and native fibrinogen concentration for improved hemostasis
These growth factors which replace, repair, and regenerate tissue are considered by many to be a "new frontier" of clinical treatment. Increasing the bioactivity at the wound site takes medicine one step closer toward its ultimate goal of naturally accelerating the body's normal healing process.
Clinical Applications
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
- Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
- Valve Repair/Replacement
- Bronchopleural Fistula
- Aneurysm Repair
- Sternal Repairs
- Cardio-Thoracic Redo Surgery
Chronic Wounds
- Decubitis Ulcers
- Valve Repair/Replacement
- Venostasis Ulcers
- Diabetic Foot Ulcers
- Spider Bites
Ear, Nose, and Throata
- Rhinoplasty
- Thyroidectomy
- Parotidectomy
- Acoustic Neurom
- Head and Neck Cancers
- Tympanoplasty
- Fixation of Cartilage, Bone, or Artificial Implants
- Dura and Facia Grafting
- Skin Graft Fixation
- Local Hemostasis in Patients with Bleeding (Tonsillectomy,
- Adenoidectomy, Mucous Membrane Defects)
General Surgery
- Hepatic Lobectomy/Wedge
- Pancreatic Surgery/Whipple Procedure
- Enterocutaneous Fistulas
- Mastectomy/Axillary Dissection
Major Vascular Surgery
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm/AFB
- Carotid Endarterectomy
- Vascular Access Grafts
Neuro Surgery
- Craniotomy
- Transsphenoidal Hypophysectomy
- Pituitary Tumor
- Dural Repair
- LP Shunt/Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak
Oral Surgery, Periodontal, Dental Implant Surgery
- Mandibular Reconstruction/Bone Grafts
- LeFort Fractures (Guerin's Fracture)
- Sinus Lifts/Naso-Alveolar Repair
- Dental Implants
Orthopedic Surgery
- Total Joint Replacement (Hips/Knees)
- Spinal Fusion
- Laminectomy
- Fractures, Non-Union/Bony Defects
Plastic Surgery
- Face, Neck and Brow Lifts
- Endoscopic Brow Blepharoplasty
- Facial Laser Procedures
- Breast Reconstruction, Reduction, Mammoplasty, and Transverse
- Rectus Abdominis Myocutaneous (TRAM) Flap
- Abdominoplasty
- Cranio-Facial Reconstruction
- Non-Healing Wounds
- Large and Small Fat Transfers
- Hair Loss Treatment
Urology
- Hemi-Nephrectomy
- Retroperitoneal Tumor
- Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy
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How Strata Critical Strengthens Your Program
Most providers offer standalone clinical services. Strata Critical delivers it as part of a fully integrated clinical ecosystem. With us you get:
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