CLINICAL EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF AMPUCARE IN TREATMENT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF WOUNDS
Journal Title: World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 12
Abstract
The study was aimed to analyze the effect of an Ayush approved poly herbal formulation, Ampucare in the management of acute and chronic non healing wounds. In the study, data of 1328 moderate to severe wound patients suffering from bedsore (pressure ulcer), traumatic wounds, diabetic wound, gangrene, burn patients, including low immunity cancer patients treated between April 2013 to March 2017 were evaluated. Male: female ratio was 2.3:1 and out of 1328 patients, the most common wounds among male were traumatic wounds which accounted for 32.07% of cases (n=298) followed by bedsore (pressure ulcer) wounds 27.5% (n=256), diabetic wounds 22.4% (n=208), burn patients 10 % (n=93), gangrene 4.2% (n=39), and cancer patients wounds 3.7% (n=35). Similarly for female patients, the most common wounds were traumatic wounds which accounted for 26.8% of cases (n=107) followed by diabetic wound 22.5% (n=90), bedsore (pressure ulcer), 17.04% (n=68), burn patients 16.3% (n=65), gangrene 9.02% (n=36) and cancer patient wounds 8.3% (n=33). Our results revealed in terms of % reduction in size of wounds after Ampucare treatment, the highest recovery was seen with wound of burn patients (95.1%) followed by bedsore (93.8%), gangrene (92.8%), cancer patient wound (91.4%), diabetic wound (88.4%) and traumatic wound (86.1). In conclusion, this retrospective study strongly suggest the use of Ampucare for the treatment of various kinds wounds. It is safe, well tolerated, effective to cure wounds in lesser time as it is having antiseptic, antioxidant and anti‐inflammatory properties.
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Rama Krishna Gupta
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