the Essence of the proposed new technology is to create foam from certain protivopravnykh drugs. Used in medicine foam is a plural component system in which liquid droplets or gas bubbles are distributed in another substance. The physical and chemical characteristics of the foam such emulsions. After studying the mechanics of movement of air in the lungs, researchers have created a device that uses external magnets to directions coming from the outside of the particles of the substance in a specific point of light. With this device you can add any nuggets of drugs and even stem cells.
Therapeutic foam, proposed by scientists, reminiscent of a surfactant (eng. surfactant, in translation – a mixture of surface-active substances) lining located on the border air – fluid pulmonary alveoli. It prevents sticking of the walls of the alveoli during breathing. For example, an artificial surfactant, which is derived as extracts from the lungs of pigs, young cows, saves premature babies with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Such therapy in the complex treatment of ARDS in viral pneumonia is widely used in Russia, Belarus and some other countries. However, in the case of coronavirus, the mixture is not effective enough, because its effectiveness is fully manifested only when administered in a small volume, as in newborns, the lungs. In adults, the surfactant used in the form of liquid extraction, is simply poured in the deep lung area and does not have time to provide a therapeutic effect.
Yan Ostrovsky explained the essence of his discoveries along with the Joshua Schnitman: “Our medical device turns spilled liquid into foam, which, because of the viscous structure is evenly distributed throughout the lung volume. Thus increases the effectiveness of drugs designed for patients with pulmonary diseases. “Phenolchemie”, administered in combination with artificial ventilation of the lungs, enhances the therapeutic process and can save many lives. Preclinical studies, including experiments on rats has already been conducted and have yielded encouraging results. Researchers engineering education. They were engaged in the problems of biology, chemistry and medicine at the Technion and ETH. Due to this and developed a foam that spreads on the lungs stem cells. To date, such procedure is carried out by injection into a vein. And only 10 percent of the substance reaches the target. The new technology uses less stem cells. And treatment cheaper.
